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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2004, 4:13 PM CDT for Jeff Davis 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 10, 2004, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jeff Davis County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 221 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 1823 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 730 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 102115 CCA
FFWMAF
TXC243-110015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTION
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
413 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 410 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
RAINFALL AMOUNTS NEAR 3 INCHES HAD FALLEN SINCE 230 PM CDT NEAR FORT
DAVIS. IN ADDITION...RADAR DETECTED HEAVY RAINFALL BETWEEN ONE AND
TWO INCHES PER HOUR FROM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM
14 MILES NORTH OF FORT DAVIS TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF FORT DAVIS. THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FORT DAVIS AND RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL JEFF DAVIS COUNTY...
EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...ROADS
AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES
IN STEEP TERRAIN. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 3053 10429 3043 10382 3067 10353 3082 10369
3104 10406 3085 10433
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 102226
FFSMAF
TXC243-110015-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
525 PM CDT SAT JUL 10 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL JEFF
DAVIS COUNTY...
AT 513 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A ROCK
SLIDE WITHIN FORT DAVIS STATE PARK ON HIGHWAY 118 DUE TO HEAVY
RAINFALL...APPROXIMATELY 1 MILE WEST OF FORT DAVIS. NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN
AND AROUND FORT DAVIS SINCE 230 PM CDT. AT 520 PM CDT...DOPPLER
RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM
15 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT DAVIS TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT
DAVIS...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FORT
DAVIS...RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY.
FLASH FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW
WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO ARROYOS...DRAWS...AND OTHER LOW LYING
AREAS. HEAVY RAINFALL...EVEN FROM DISTANT STORMS...CAN CREATE SUDDEN
FLOWS CAPABLE OF OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE
RISING WATER.
TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
MIDLAND.
LAT...LON 3053 10429 3043 10382 3067 10353 3082 10369
3104 10406 3085 10433
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 52 min |
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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.