Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 16, 1990, 6:41 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, 6:41 PM MDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1990, 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 170041 FFWMAF NMC025-170245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 741 PM CDT (641 PM MDT) SUN SEP 16 1990 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 LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY AT 735 PM CDT RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS IN HOBBS NEW MEXICO REPORT VERY HEAVY RAIN IN AND NEAR THE CITY OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE NORTH. UP TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED JUST TO THE NORTH OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE 8THE 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.
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, 4 hours 47 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, 2 hours 53 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, 2 hours 33 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.
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 4:54 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-172340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 535 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...IN CENTRAL LEA COUNTY...UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 530 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF RAIN AND WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY SHOWERS BOUND BY A LINE FROM MULESHOE...TO ABILENE...TO SOUTH OF BROWNWOOD...TO OZONA...TO THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK...TO VAN HORN...TO HOBBS NEW MEXICO...TO MULESHOE TEXAS. THEY WERE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. AT 545 PM CDT...VERY HEAVY RAIN DURING THE PAST HOUR...2 1/4 INCHES IN DOWNTOWN HOBBS...AND 3 INCHES 3 MILES NORTH OF HOBBS...HAD CAUSED FLOODING THERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 5:51 PM MDT, 50 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-170040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 635 PM CDT SUN SEP 16 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...IN CENTRAL LEA COUNTY...UNTIL 730 PM CDT... AT 540 PM CDT...THERE WERE PUBLIC REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS IN SOUTHWEST HOBBS. AT 610 PM CDT...LEA COUNTY SHERRIFF REPORTED THAT BUSINESSES AND HOMES WERE FLOODING...STREETS WERE FLOODED AND THERE WERE MOTORISTS STRANDED ...IN THE CITY OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO. EMERGENCY UNITS WERE BEING ACTIVATED. AT 628 PM CDT...AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...AND NUMEROUS AREAS OF RAIN...WERE BOUND BY A LINE FROM SOUTH OF MULESHOE TEXAS...TO EAST OF ABILENE...TO NEAR BROWNWOOD... TO THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK...TO SOUTHEAST OF ROSWELL NEW MEXICO ...TO SOUTH OF MULESHOE TEXAS. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS AT HOBBS NEW MEXICO...AND BETWEEN ODESSA AND MCCAMEY. THEY WERE MOVING NORTH AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR FURTHER BULLETINS.
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.