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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 12, 1991Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 12, 1991, 9:56 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 12, 1991, 9:56 PM MDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired
Sep 13, 1991, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 1991-09-13Temperature 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 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 1991-09-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 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
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 7:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy51 min
Sep 12, 9:04 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy56 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991

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.