Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Apr 21, 1990, 9:26 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 1990, 9:26 PM MDT (03:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 21, 1990, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chaves 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 385 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2307 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 465 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 21, 3:41 PM MDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-212240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 443 P CDT SAT APR 21 1990 AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM NORTH OF ALPINE TO NORTHWEST OF VAN HORN. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTH OF SARAGOSA...AND 5 MILES NORTH OF FORT DAVIS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE HIGH WINDS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOUR LIFE SEEMS THREATENED SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 3:45 PM MDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-212240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 443 PM CDT SAT APR 21 1990 AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM NORTH OF ALPINE TO NORTHWEST OF VAN HORN. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTH OF SARAGOSA...AND 5 MILES NORTH OF FORT DAVIS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE HIGH WINDS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOUR LIFE SEEMS THREATENED SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 5:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-220040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 640 PM CDT SAT APR 21 1990 AT 635 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 15 EAST OF FORT DAVIS IN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM THE TEXAS BIG BEND TO SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE HIGH WINDS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND FLOODIrNG OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 60 min |
| Apr 21, 9:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Chaves | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 65 min |
| Apr 22, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 60 min |
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.