Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 1989, 6:44 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1989, 6:44 PM MDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1989, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 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, 0.7 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
- 1130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 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 260047
FFWMAF
NMC025-260245-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
744 PM CDT (644 PM MDT) FRI AUG 25 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT (845 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
...NORTHERN LEA
AT 740 PM CDT...640 PM MDT A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
INDICATED IS MOVING INTO NORTHERN LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO. RAINFALL
REPORTS FROM CROSSROADS REPORTED 1.90 INCHES OF RAIN FROM THE LAST
THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED ACROSS THAT AREA A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO. ANY
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL FROM THIS CURRENT THUNDERSTORM WILL CAUSE ALREADY
FULL STREAMS...BAR DITCHES...AND LOW AREAS TO FURTHER FLOOD.
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 WATEOR 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 25, 3:37 PM MDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 433 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 1989 ...HEAVY RAINFALL IN NORTHERN LEA COUNTY... AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF TATUM NEW MEXICO...10 MILES EAST OF CARLSBAD CAVERNS NEW MEXICO...AND 30 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WHICH EXTENDED FROM JEFF DAVIS COUNTY NORTHWARD INTO SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF BIG SPRING TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF SWEETWATER. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. DURING THE PAST HOUR...ONE INCH OF RAIN FELL AT CROSSROADS NEW MEXICO...IN NORTHERN LEA COUNTY...WITH RAIN STILL FALLING. ALTHOUGH NO FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED...THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING OF INTERSECTIONS AND LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR~ YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
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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.