Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2004, 10:50 PM CDT for Terrell 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 22, 2004, 10:50 PM CDT (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 170 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 585 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 230350
FFWMAF
TXC443-230645-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1050 PM CDT TUE JUN 22 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 145 AM CDT
* AT 1048 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
HEAVY RAINFALL FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TERRELL GAS PLANT...
OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTH OF SHEFFIELD. THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH
FLOODING WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
THE TERRELL GAS PLANT...
TO REPORT FLOODING... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW WATER
CROSSINGS...NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS...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 3017 10252 3016 10180 3060 10172 3061 10208
3055 10232 3028 10231
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 230548
FFSMAF
TXC443-230645-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1240 AM CDT WED JUN 23 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR NORTHERN
TERRELL COUNTY...
AT 1235 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF TERRELL
COUNTY. THIS ACTIVITY IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 10
MPH. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IS ESTIMATING THAT 3 TO 4 INCHES
OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN OVER EAST CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY OVER THE
PAST THREE HOURS.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING
INCLUDE...THE TERRELL GAS PLANT.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3017 10253 3016 10181 3028 10177 3038 10172
3042 10176 3049 10170 3060 10172 3061 10208
3055 10233 3028 10231
$$Nearby
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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.