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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 29, 2004Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2004, 4:40 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 29, 2004, 4:40 PM MDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 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), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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 122 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 12:00Z on 2004-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2004-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1188 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 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 292242
FFWMAF
NMC025-300145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
440 PM MDT TUE JUN 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 438 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING 18 MILES WEST OF 
  JAL...OR ABOUT 27 MILES NORTH OF MENTONE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.
  THIS AREA RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT. 
  
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY...

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

LAT...LON 3235 10370 3202 10368 3201 10308 3235 10310

$$
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 292353
FFSMAF
NMC025-300145-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
551 PM MDT TUE JUN 29 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM MDT FOR SOUTHERN LEA
COUNTY...

AT 547 PM MDT...A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAL...OR ABOUT 26 MILES
NORTH OF KERMIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT SOME LOCATIONS SOUTH OF SH128 AND WEST OF JAL 
RECEIVED UP TO TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR.

FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING LAND 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 3235 10370 3202 10368 3201 10308 3235 10310

$$
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 300057
FFSMAF
NMC025-300145-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
657 PM MDT TUE JUN 29 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN 
LEA COUNTY HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY.

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

LAT...LON 3235 10370 3202 10368 3201 10308 3235 10310

$$

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 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.