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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 3, 1987Chaves County, Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1987, 6:30 PM MDT for Chaves County, Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1987, 6:30 PM MDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1987, 12:30 AM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2438 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.