Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| 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, 2:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 4 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
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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.