Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2004, 1:53 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. 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, 1:53 PM MDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2004, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 241957
FFWMAF
NMC025-250000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
153 PM MDT SAT JUL 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WESTERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 600 PM MDT
* AT 148 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR MALJAMAR OR 10 MILES WEST
OF BUCKEYE...LITTLE MOVEMENT NOTED.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MALJAMAR...
RURAL AREAS ALONG COUNTY ROAD 126A...
RURAL AREAS ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 529...
FLASH FLOODING OF ARROYOS... LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND LOW LYING
FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3256 10379 3233 10330 3319 10358 3296 10375
3277 10379
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 242234
FFSMAF
NMC025-250000-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
430 PM MDT SAT JUL 24 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR LEA COUNTY...
AT 426 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER RUNNING
UP TO A FOOT DEEP IN THE STREETS OF JAL. THE STORM THAT PRODUCED THIS
FLOODING STRETCHED FROM NEAR THE EDDY COUNTY LINE BACK EASTWARD TO JAL.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING
INCLUDE...SOUTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY.
NEVER DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3205 10363 3203 10313 3320 10338 3292 10374
3276 10371
$$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.