Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2004, 12:50 AM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. 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 26, 2004, 12:50 AM CDT (05:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2004, 6:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2048 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 260551
FFWMAF
TXC443-261145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1250 AM CDT MON JUL 26 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 645 AM CDT
* AT 1250 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
FLASH FLOODING FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER
TERRELL COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 2979 10214 3006 10257 3027 10256 3029 10236
3059 10236 3059 10215 3065 10213 3063 10166
3063 10166 3054 10164 3042 10173 3034 10166
3027 10177 2977 10178 2980 10184
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 261030
FFSMAF
TXC443-261145-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
524 AM CDT MON JUL 26 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 AM CDT FOR TERRELL
COUNTY...
AT 508 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN
TERRELL COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES NORTH OF SANDERSON
...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THAT A HALF INCH OR MORE
OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE WESTERN PART OF THE COUNTY DURING THE
PAST 3 HOURS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 2979 10214 3006 10257 3027 10256 3029 10236
3059 10236 3059 10215 3065 10213 3063 10166
3063 10166 3054 10164 3042 10173 3034 10166
3027 10177 2977 10178 2980 10184
$$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.