Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 2004, 4:44 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. 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 24, 2004, 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2004, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 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 242244
FFWMAF
NMC025-250145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
444 PM MDT THU JUN 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 745 PM MDT
* AT 441 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR MONUMENT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS. THIS COMPLEX OF STORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING
IS SLOWLY MOVING SOUTH...AND FLASH FLOODING IS BECOMING LIKELY WEST
AND SOUTH OF HOBBS.
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 ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 3293 10378 3252 10370 3219 10369 3217 10310
3294 10306
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 250021
FFSMAF
NMC025-250145-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
621 PM MDT THU JUN 24 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL LEA
COUNTY...
AT 615 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A
FLASH FLOODING HAS RESULTED IN SEVERAL VEHICLES BEING WASHED OFF
THE CITY STREETS OF HOBBS DURING THE LAST HOUR. THE HEAVIEST
RAINFALL HAS MOVED SOUTH OF HOBBS...AND IS NOW OVER SOUTHERN
LEA COUNTY...HOWEVER...RUN OFF OF FLOOD WATERS WILL CONTINUE.
MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID FLOODED ROADWAYS. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 3293 10378 3252 10370 3219 10369 3217 10310
3294 10306
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 69 min |
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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.