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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 21, 2004Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2004, 7:34 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 2004, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2004, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Howard County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 547 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3207 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 220034
FFWMAF
TXC227-220330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
734 PM CDT MON JUN 21 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 728 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED VERY
  HEAVY RAINFALL WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BIG SPRING. FLASH
  FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN THE CITY OF BIG SPRING...WILL BE LIKELY. 
  THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.

LAT...LON 3251 10169 3210 10169 3210 10119 3251 10121

$$
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 220128
FFSMAF
TXC227-220330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
828 PM CDT MON JUN 21 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR HOWARD
COUNTY...

FLOODING OF CITY STREETS HAS BEEN REPORTED IN BIG SPRING. AT 745 PM 
CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A VEHICLE WAS WASHED 
OFF OF THE ROADWAY WITH WATER RESCUES UNDERWAY. 

AT 826 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DEPICTED VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL OVER SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY. DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING IS 
POSSIBLE ALONG HIGHWAY 87 SOUTH OF BIG SPRING.

LAT...LON 3251 10168 3210 10168 3210 10119 3251 10121

$$
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 220235
FFSMAF
TXC227-220330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
929 PM CDT MON JUN 21 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR HOWARD
COUNTY...

AT 928 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED SWIFT WATER 
FLOWING ACROSS FM 33 NEAR ELBOW CREEK...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF 
BIG SPRING.  FM 33 IS IMPASSABLE WITH CARS REPORTED STUCK IN THIS 
FLASH FLOOD AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL HAVE REQUESTED THAT 
RESIDENTS AVOID TRAVELING THROUGH THIS AREA.

FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE
ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.

TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3251 10169 3210 10169 3210 10119 3251 10121

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward61 min
Jun 21, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland41 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.