Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 1989, 10:14 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 1989, 10:14 PM MDT (04:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1989, 2:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 727 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 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 KMAF 220442
FFWMAF
NMC025-220845-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1141 PM CDT (1041 PM MDT) MON AUG 21 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CDT (245 AM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
...LEA
AT 1030 PM MDT...STREET FLOODING CONTINUES TO BE REPORTED IN HOBBS NEW
MEXICO...AND NWS RADAR AT MIDLAND TEXAS INDICATES THAT A LARGE
AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS LEA
COUNTY DURING THE NIGHT.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.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, Aug 21, 10:05 PM MDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1100 PM CDT AUG 21 1989 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE HOBBS NEW MEXICO AREA... DURING THE LAST TWO HOURS THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPED IN THE HOBBS AREA. HOBBS POLICE REPORTED SOME STREET FLOODING IN THE AREA OF U.S. HIGHWAYS 62 AND 180. RADAR INDICATES A LESSENING OF INTENCITIES DURING THE LAST FEW MINUTES. PERSONS IN THE HOBBS AREA OR DRIVING TOWARD HOBBS SHOULD STAY ALERT TO WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 11:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.