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Flash Flood Warning 95, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 28, 2004Jeff Davis County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2004, 2:19 AM CDT for Jeff Davis County, Texas. It was in force for 4 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 28, 2004, 2:19 AM CDT (07:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2004, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jeff Davis County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 236 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:19 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 280719
FFWMAF
TXC243-281130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
219 AM CDT WED JUL 28 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT

* AT 215 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED.   
  MODERATE TO OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER MOST OF JEFF  
  DAVIS COUNTY. THIS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING 
  ACROSS THE COUNTY. LOCATIONS THAT MAY HAVE THE GREATEST THREAT OF  
  FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE STATE ROUTE 118 SOUTH OF FORT DAVIS WHERE   
  HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ALREADY RESULTED IN FLASH FLOODING EARLIER      
  TONIGHT.

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. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS

LAT...LON 3066 10480 3043 10381 3076 10362 3108 10409

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 281114
FFSMAF
TXC243-281130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
614 AM CDT WED JUL 28 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR JEFF DAVIS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 630 
AM CDT...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE HEAVY 
RAINFALL HAS ENDED OVER JEFF DAVIS COUNTY. RUNOFF MAY CONTINUE TO 
RESULT IN FLOODING OF SOME LOW LYING AREAS...ESPECIALLY OVER 
SOUTHERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY ALONG STATE ROUTE 118 THROUGH MID MORNING.

TO REPORT FLOODING ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 
FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3066 10480 3043 10381 3076 10362 3108 10409

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 8:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	3 hr
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, 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, 2004 Every 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.