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Flash Flood Warning 89, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 27, 2004Brewster County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 343 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 11:09 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos6 hr
Jul 27, 11:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFJeff Davis3 hr
Jul 28, 12:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPresidio5 hr
Jul 28, 2:06 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward4 hr
Jul 28, 2:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGaines3 hr
Jul 28, 2:19 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFJeff Davis4 hr
Jul 28, 3:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFTerrell6 hr
Jul 28, 4:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos4 hr
Jul 28, 5:05 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden4 hr
Jul 28, 5:52 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFDawson3 hr
Jul 28, 3:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFTerrell5 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.