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Flash Flood Warning 78, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2004, 8:07 PM CDT for Upton 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 24, 2004, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 674 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 250110 FFWMAF TXC461-250400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 807 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 805 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MIDKIFF...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTH OF RANKIN...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL AREA OFNORTHERN UPTON COUNTY... FM 2401... TEXAS ROUTE 349... MIDKIFF AREA... FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... LOW WATER CROSSINGS... NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS... 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 3112 10226 3125 10181 3165 10179 3163 10228 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 250233 FFSMAF TXC461-250400- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 929 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR UPTON COUNTY... AT 927 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR UPTON COUNTY HAS MOVED NORTH. NO FLOODING REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...HOWEVER THE WARNING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 1100 PM TO ALLOW FOR ANY AREAS OF HIGH WATER TO RECEDE. FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3112 10226 3125 10181 3165 10179 3163 10228 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 3:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves, Ward | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 9:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 9:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 9:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 4 hr |
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.