Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004

Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 27, 2004Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2004, 7:06 PM CDT for Upton 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 27, 2004, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 2004-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 828 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
828 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1245 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 280008
FFWMAF
TXC461-280300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
706 PM CDT SUN JUN 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 704 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLASH FLOODING FROM A          
  THUNDERSTORM ALONG HIGHWAY 349 TEN MILES NORTH OF RANKIN...
  AND FLASH FLOODING FROM A SECOND THUNDERSTORM NEAR MCCAMEY.
  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RANKIN...
  MCCAMEY...

MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE...AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY
AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN.

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

LAT...LON 3147 10198 3110 10229 3113 10179 3147 10179

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 9:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFTerrell3 hr

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.