Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
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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.
- 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
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 $$
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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.