Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2004, 8:33 PM CDT for Brewster 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 27, 2004, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2004, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brewster County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 217 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 280134
FFWMAF
TXC043-280430-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
833 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
* AT 831 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF ALTUDA...OR
ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALPINE...MOVING EAST 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 3039 10376 3015 10377 3023 10339 3042 10313
3065 10345
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 280253
FFSMAF
TXC043-280430-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
953 PM CDT TUE JUL 27 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1130 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN
BREWSTER COUNTY...
AT 948 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THESE
STORMS WERE LOCATED 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALPINE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF ALTUDA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES
INDICATED OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE LAST 3 HOURS
ALONG HIGHWAY 67...15 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY
90 AND HIGHWAY 67 IN NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3039 10376 3015 10377 3023 10339 3042 10313
3065 10345
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 11:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 6 hr |
| Jul 27, 11:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 12:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Presidio | 5 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:06 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 6 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Texas, 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.