Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 1990, 1:43 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1990, 1:43 PM MDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1990, 3:45 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 12:00Z, 7.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 281944 FFWMAF NMC025-282145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 243 PM CDT (143 PM MDT) SAT JUL 28 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT (345 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...LEA COUNTY AT 235 PM CDT (135 PM MDT)...ROAD FLOODING WAS STILL BEING REPORTED 5 TO 10 MILES NORTH OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO BY THE CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR FOR LEA COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE HEAVY RAIN IN AREAS THAT ARE ALREADY FLOODED. SINCE HEAVY RAIN FELL OVER MUCH OF LEA COUNTY YESTERDAY...THE GROUND IS LIKELY SATURATED SO CONDITIONS WILL BE SLOW TO IMPROVE. 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 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 28, 9:47 AM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-281645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1040 AM CDT SAT JUL 28 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING IN INTENSITY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 1025 AM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN INDICATED HAD DEVELOPED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO. THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK TEXAS TO NORTHWEST OF FORT DAVIS TEXAS AND COVERED THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST CORNER OF NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 6:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| 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 |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.