Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1987
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 1987, 10:00 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1987, 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1987, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- 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, 4.0 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KABQ 230400
FFWABQ
NMC015-230600-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1000 PM MDT FRI MAY 22 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
...EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EDDY
NEARLY THREE AND THREE QUARTER INCHES OF RAIN /3.74/ FELL AT THE
CARLSBAD NM AIRPORT IN THE SPACE OF AN HOUR AND A HALF. ALTHOUGH THE
HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM RAINS HAVE SHIFTED TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST OF
THE CITY OF CARLSBAD...RADAR INDICATES THAT MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
DEVELOPING OVER THE MOUNTAINS NEAR CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE OVER AREAS ALREADY VISITED BY TORRENTIAL
RAINS...RESULTING IN MORE FLASH FLOODING OVER EASTERN AND SOUTHERN
EDDY COUNTY.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF gFLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.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, 9:31 PM MDT, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND, TX 1025PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE ODESSA/MIDLAND AREA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES THAT VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOW BUILDING OVER GOLDSMITH...NORTHWEST OF ODESSA. THEY ARE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST...AT 10 MPH. RESIDENTS OF ECTOR AND MIDLAND COUNTIES SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA...DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO/TV...AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 8:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 58 min |
| May 22, 9:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| May 22, 9:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| May 23, 11:28 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| May 23, 11:38 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 67 min |
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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.