Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 2004, 4:50 AM CDT for Loving County, Reeves County, Ward County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 6 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 25, 2004, 4:50 AM CDT (09:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2004, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lea County, NM, Loving County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Ward County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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 250950
FFWMAF
NMC025-TXC301-389-475-251545-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
350 AM MDT SUN JUL 25 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LOVING COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
WARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 945 AM MDT(1045 AM CDT)
* AT 447 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING OVER
EASTERN REEVES COUNTY...WESTERN WARD COUNTY...LOVING COUNTY...AND
SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS...AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE
ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.
MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE...AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY
AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3356 10305 3201 10307 3198 10335 3166 10335
3165 10278 3130 10278 3137 10303 3078 10361
3111 10410 3194 10402 3200 10401 3202 10371
3252 10369 3253 10380 3277 10380 3297 10379
3298 10373 3357 10370
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 8:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Upton | 3 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 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 |
| Jul 25, 10:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 2004Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 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.