Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1991, 1:09 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1991, 1:09 AM MDT (07:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1991, 2:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3343 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 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 020710 FFWMAF NMC025-020815- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 209 AM CDT (109 AM MDT) SUN JUN 2 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM CDT (215 AM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...LEA COUNTY AT 205 AM CDT...105 AM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST NORTH OF EUNICE NEW MEXICO. THE HOBBS SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE-HAIL AND WATER 2 TO 3 INCHES DEEP 5 MILES SOUTH OF HOBBS AT 106 AM MDT. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH 15 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND 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.
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, Jun 1, 11:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-020645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1228 AM CST SUN JUN 2 1991 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT TILL 1 AM FOR THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN... AT 1225 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ...WAS LOCATED FROM NORTH OF SEMINOLE TOWARD CHILDRESS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 12:32 AM MDT, 37 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-020745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 128 AM CST SUN JUN 2 1991 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN EXPIRED... AT 125 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ...WAS LOCATED FROM WEST OF JAL NEW MEXICO TO EAST OF CHILDRESS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
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.