Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2005, 11:44 AM CDT for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2005, 11:44 AM CDT (16:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scurry County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:45 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:00 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Snyder, TX | HIGH WATER RESCUE |
| Aug 14, 1:10 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Snyder, TX | A FOOT OF WATER WAS RUNNING OVER WADLEY AND I STREETS |
| Aug 14, 2:05 PM CDT | FLASH FLOOD | Snyder, TX | FM 612 NEAR FLUVANNA IMPASSABLE DUE TO 3 FEET OF WATER OVER THE ROAD |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 281 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 141649 FFWMAF TXC415-141945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1144 AM CDT SUN AUG 14 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 1141 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING MOVING INTO SCURRY COUNTY. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS INDICATE THAT FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS MUCH OF THE COUNTY FROM EARLIER RAINFALL. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SNYDER... FLUVANNA... HUDD... A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS... CREEKS... AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3294 10116 3254 10117 3253 10068 3294 10069 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 141908 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 206 PM CDT SUN AUG 14 2005 TXC415-141945- SCURRY- 206 PM CDT SUN AUG 14 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM CDT FOR SCURRY COUNTY... AT 204 PM CDT...THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN SNYDER REPORTED WATER 3 FEET DEEP ON FM 612 NEAR FLUVANNA. THIS ROAD IS IMPASSABLE. ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL MOVE INTO SNYDER AND ALL UNNECESSARY TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE. TURN AROUND... DONT DROWN. TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3294 10116 3254 10117 3253 10068 3294 10069 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 8:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 12:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Winkler | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 12:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 1:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 4 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Terrell | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reeves | 3 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.