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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 5, 2004Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2004, 8:34 PM CDT for Dawson 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
Jul 5, 2004, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2004, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dawson County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 2004-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1870 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2004-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1870 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 060135
FFWMAF
TXC115-060430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
834 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 823 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED 
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON 
  DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 3 INCHES OR MORE OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN
  IN THIS AREA FROM THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SPARENBERG...
  ACKERLY...
  HIGHWAYS 87 AND 137...

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 ROADS.

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.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS... CREEKS... AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND
PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF
UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE.

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

LAT...LON 3270 10186 3253 10195 3252 10172 3269 10169

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 060318
FFSMAF
TXC115-060430-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1017 PM CDT MON JUL 5 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
DAWSON COUNTY...

HEAVY RAINS FELL ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON COUNTY EARLIER THIS
EVENING. EVEN THOUGH THUNDERSTORMS HAVE COME TO AN END...FLOODING MAY
STILL BE OCCURING ALONG AREA ROADS NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF 
SPARENBERG...AND ACKERLY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 3 INCHES OR MORE OF RAIN
MAY HAVE FALLEN IN THESE AREAS THIS EVENING.

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.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE. TURN
AROUND... DONT DROWN.

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

LAT...LON 3270 10186 3253 10195 3252 10172 3269 10169

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor60 min
Jul 5, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor59 min
Jul 5, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson60 min
Jul 5, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden58 min
Jul 5, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin65 min
Jul 5, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin63 min
Jul 5, 9:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMartin3 hr
Jul 5, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin30 min
Jul 6, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos57 min
Jul 6, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves59 min
Jul 6, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard50 min

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.