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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 28, 2004Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2004, 3:01 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 28, 2004, 3:01 AM CDT (08:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2004, 9:00 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), 182 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1180 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, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
1180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 280801
FFWMAF
TXC443-281400-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 900 AM CDT

* AT 254 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED    
  A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL 
  MOVING EAST INTO TERRELL COUNTY. THIS RAINFALL WILL SPREAD ACROSS  
  MOST OF THE COUNTY BY 5 AM CDT. GIVEN RECENT VERY HEAVY RAINFALL   
  AND FLOODING IN THE COUNTY...ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY.

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.

LAT...LON 3010 10258 2991 10233 2984 10182 3063 10172 3065 10212     
      3061 10215 3060 10235 3030 10237

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 280855
FFSMAF
TXC443-281400-

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

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 AM CDT FOR TERRELL
COUNTY...

AT 348 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SATELLITE 
INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL SPREADING EAST 
ACROSS TERRELL COUNTY. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BEGIN TO FALL IN AREAS 
AFFECTED BY THE RECENT SIGNIFICANT FLOODING BY 430 AM CDT. 
ESPECIALLY ALONG FARM TO MARKET ROAD 2400 AND STATE ROUTE 349.  

HEAVY RAINFALL WILL LIKELY RESULT IN VERY DANGEROUS FLASH FLOODING 
CONDITIONS. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED AREAS

LAT...LON 3010 10258 2991 10233 2984 10182 3063 10172
      3061 10215 3060 10235 3030 10237

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 8:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster3 hr
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, 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.