Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 1990, 6:13 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1990, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1990, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 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, 0.2 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
- 151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 280108 COR FFWMAF NMC025-280315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 713 PM CDT (613 PM MDT) FRI JUL 27 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT (915 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...EASTERN LEA COUNTY AT 608 PM MDT THE CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR FOR LEA COUNTY REPORTED FLOODING JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF HOBBS. SOME HOMES ARE ALREADY FLOODED. THIS AREA IS A NATURAL DRAINAGE AREA AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURING 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, Jul 27, 2:39 PM MDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-272200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 340 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 325 PM CDT...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM MARFA TEXAS TO HOBBS NEW MEXICO AND LUBBOCK TEXAS. SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 15 MILES WEST OF PECOS IN REEVES COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS AND SOME RAINSHOWERS WERE LOCATED IN THE MOUNTAINS O?F SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR UPDATES AND POSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-272245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 443 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF GRANDFALLS...AND FROM NEAR SARAGOSA TO WEST OF KERMIT...AND IN THE VICINITY OF LUBBOCK. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM NORTH OF ALPINE TO VAN HORN TEXAS TO NEAR CARLSBAD CAVERNS IN NEW MEXICO TO THE LUBBOCK AREA OF TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS...HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...NOAA RADIO...OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 4:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 545 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 530 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NEAR JAL NEW MEXICO...JUST NORTH OF HOBBS...AND SOUTHEAST OF SARAGOSA TEXAS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM ALPINE TO VAN HORN TEXAS TO NORTHWEST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO TO WEST OF GUTHRIE TEXAS THEN SOUTHWEST TO NEAR FORT STOCKTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS...HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...NOAA RADIO...OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 5:37 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-280045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 640 PM CDT FRI JUL 27 1990 AT 630 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF SEMINOLE TEXAS...NEAR BROWNFIELD...AND NEAR MARATHON. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM SOUTH OF MARATHON TO THE GUADALUPE PASS TO NORTH OF TATUM NEW MEXICO ...AND FROM LUBBOCK TEXAS SOUTHWEST TO SOUTH OF KERMIT. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HIGH WINDS...HAIL... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...NOAA RADIO...OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 65 min |
| Jul 27, 11:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 1:43 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 2 hr |
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.