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Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2004, 1:43 PM CDT for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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 24, 2004, 1:43 PM CDT (18:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2004, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scurry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1271 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 241843
FFWMAF
TXC415-242245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
143 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 545 PM CDT
* AT 140 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING NEAR IRA...OR
ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF SNYDER...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SNYDER...
UNION...
RANDALLS CORNER...
DERMOTT...
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3252 10072 3264 10073 3291 10069 3294 10113
3254 10114
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS74 KMAF 241941
FFSMAF
TXC415-242245-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
240 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR SCURRY
COUNTY...
AT 235 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED
7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SNYDER...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. ADDITIONAL STORMS
EXTEND EAST ACROSS THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE COUNTY. LOCALIZED STREET
FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SNYDER.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3252 10072 3264 10073 3291 10069 3294 10113
3254 10114
$$000
WGUS74 KMAF 242016
FFSMAF
TXC415-242245-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
313 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR SCURRY
COUNTY...
AT 309 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER RESCUES
OCCURRING IN SNYDER AT AVE E AND 20TH. THE STORM THAT CAUSED THIS FLOODING
HAS MOVED NORTH OF SNYDER AND WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK NORTH AT 15 MPH ACROSS
THE NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3252 10072 3264 10073 3291 10069 3294 10113
3254 10114
$$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.