Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1990, 4:23 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 1990, 4:23 PM MDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1990, 6:30 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 12:00Z, 10.4 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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 162224 FFWMAF NMC025-170030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 523 PM CDT (423 PM MDT) SUN SEP 16 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT (630 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...CENTRAL LEA COUNTY AT 515 CDT...THE SHERIFF IN HOBBS NEW MEXICO REPORTED STREET FLOODING AND PEA SIZED HAIL IN THE CITY OF HOBBS. RADAR INDICATES THAT THIS STORM IS DECREASING IN INTENSITY AND MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 MPH. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE 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, Sep 16, 1:54 PM MDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-162045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 244 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO GLASSCOCK COUNTY... A AT 225 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR GARDEN CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NORTHWEST OF MERTZON AND NORTHEAST OF BIG LAKE. THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE AREA FROM NORTH OF LUBBOCK TO EAST OF SONORA AND INTO THE TRANS-PECOS EAST OF VAN HORN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHWEST 15 MILES AN HOUR. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION AND NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 3:48 PM MDT, 35 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-162240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 435 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN WEST TEXAS... AT 425 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED OVER HOBBS NEW MEXICO. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM BIG SPRING TO SOUTH OF ALPINE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE BOUND BY A LINE FROM MULESHOE TO TO ABILENE...TO MASON...TO SOUTH OF ALPINE...TO NORTH OF FORT DAVIS TEXAS...TO HOBBS NEW MEXICO...TO MULESHOE TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TOc NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 4:08 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-162240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 505 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 1990 ...LOCAL URBAN AND STREET FLOODING IN ODESSA... AT 500 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED LOCAL URBAN AND STREET FLOODING IN NORTH ODESSA. ROADWAYS ALONG GRANDVIEW EAST OF ANDREWS HIGHWAY MAY HAVE FLOODING DURING HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THESE STORMS WILL BE IN THE AREA FOR THE NEXT 1-2 HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATH|ER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION.
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.