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Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 5, 2004Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2004, 9:22 PM CDT for Martin 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, 9:22 PM CDT (02:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2004, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Martin County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 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 060222
FFWMAF
TXC317-060515-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MARTIN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1215 AM CDT

* AT 914 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF EASTERN MARTIN 
  COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE
  ALREADY FALLEN ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN MARTIN COUNTY...PARTICULARY
  NEAR LENORAH AND ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 137.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LENORAH...
  STATE HIGHWAY 137...
  FARM ROAD 2002...

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.

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

LAT...LON 3250 10172 3250 10203 3211 10200 3212 10171

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 060255
FFSMAF
TXC317-060515-

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

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR EASTERN
MARTIN COUNTY...

AT 948 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED UP TO A FOOT OF WATER
COVERING PARTS OF STATE HIGHWAY 137 SOUTH OF LENORAH. FLOODING WAS ALSO
REPORTED ALONG SEVERAL STREETS IN LENORAH.

FLOODING MAY ALSO BE OCCURING ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 137 NORTH OF 
LENORAH...AND ALONG FARM ROAD 2002 IN NORTHEASTERN MARTIN 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.

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

LAT...LON 3250 10172 3250 10203 3211 10200 3212 10171

$$

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, 8:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
Jul 5, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	63 min
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.