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Flash Flood Warning 69, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 29, 2004Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2004, 10:35 PM CDT for Pecos 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 29, 2004, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2004, 1:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1338 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 300338
FFWMAF
TXC371-300630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1035 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME EASTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 130 AM CDT

* AT 1034 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES
  A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER IRAAN MOVING EAST AT
  10 MPH.  LOCAL LAW ENORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING
  IN IRANN WITH WATER IN THE STREETS RANGES FROM 6 INCHES DEEP
  TO 3 FEET DEEP.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EASTERN PECOS COUNTY...

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 3102 10197 3080 10225 3073 10166 3090 10184

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 300410
FFSMAF
TXC371-300630-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1108 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR EXTREME  
EASTERN PECOS COUNTY...

AT 1104 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING
ON U.S. 190 FIVE MILES WEST OF IRAAN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF IRAAN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHEFFIELD. THE
THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING
INCLUDE...IRAAN.

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 3102 10197 3080 10225 3073 10166 3090 10184

$$

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 300500
FFSMAF
TXC371-300630-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1157 PM CDT TUE JUN 29 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 130 AM CDT FOR EXTREME EAST
CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY...

AT 1156 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED WATER STILL RUNNING
THROUGH THE STREETS AT IRAAN BUT WAS BEGINNING TO IMPROVE. THIS THUNDERSTORM
WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF IRAAN AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING
INCLUDE...IRAAN.

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 3102 10197 3080 10225 3073 10166 3090 10184

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 7:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	3 hr
Jun 29, 7:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	3 hr
Jun 29, 10:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Terrell	3 hr

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.