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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
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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 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 59 min |
| Jul 5, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 9:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 50 min |
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.