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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 22, 1987Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 1987, 9:00 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1987, 9:00 PM MDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1987, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 998 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 230300
FFWABQ
NMC015-230400-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
900 PM MDT FRI MAY 22 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM MDT AND A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
          ...EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EDDY
 
HAIL ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND TORRENTIAL RAINS WERE REPORTED AT THE
CARLSBAD AIRPORT AT 850 PM MDT.  FLOODING OF STREETS AND PARKING LOTS
IS OCCURRING IN THE CITY OF CARLSBAD.  THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
THESE CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO MOVE FROM CARLSBAD CAVERNS ACROSS
CARLSBAD INTO NORTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME BOR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 3:17 PM MDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
410 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1987

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWESTERN
REEVES COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

AT 355 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...1 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN
SOUTHWEST REEVES COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES THAT
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST...AT 15 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO
NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVlERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 8:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy58 min
May 22, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min
May 22, 10:00 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy2 hr
May 23, 11:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea62 min
May 23, 11:38 AM MDTTornado WarningMAFLea67 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1987Every flash flood warning in 1987

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.