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Flash Flood Warning 75, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 13, 2004Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2004, 6:43 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
Jul 13, 2004, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2004, 9:45 PM 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), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 12:00Z on 2004-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2004-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
958 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 132351
FFWMAF
TXC371-140245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
643 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 640 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED   
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER SOUTHWESTERN 
  PECOS COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES
  OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ALONG AND JUST EAST OF HIGHWAY 385. THESE STORMS
  WILL MOVE NORTHWEST AROUND 10 MPH OR LESS. AN ADDITIONAL 2 TO 3
  INCHES OF RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE.  

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SOUTHWESTERN PECOS COUNTY...
  U.S. HIGHWAYS 67 AND 385...
  CHANCELLOR...

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

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... DRAWS 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.

LAT...LON 3065 10341 3032 10293 3074 10270 3102 10313

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 140245
FFSMAF
TXC371-140255-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
944 PM CDT TUE JUL 13 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN PECOS COUNTY WILL BE 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 945 PM CDT...

AT 930 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR NO LONGER 
DETECTED ANY RAINFALL OVER PECOS COUNTY.  THEREFORE...THE FLASH 
FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.  HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL 
FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS AND BAR DITCHES ALONG HIGHWAY 385 WILL 
BE POSSIBLE DUE TO RUNOFF FROM EARLIER RAINFALL.  

LAT...LON 3065 10341 3032 10293 3074 10270 3102 10313

$$

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.