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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 1, 1990Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 1990, 7:57 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1990, 7:57 PM MDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1990, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
63 min
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, 2.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1990-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 020213 COR
FFWMAF
NMC025-020300-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION FOR TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
857 PM CDT (757 PM MDT) WED AUG 1 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...SOUTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY

AT 853 PM CDT HOBBS CIVIL DEFENSE COORDINATOR REPORTED ONE INCH HAIL
AND FLOODING SOUTHEAST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO. RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STANBD BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 7:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea63 min

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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.