Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1992, 7:57 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1992, 7:57 PM MDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1992, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Roosevelt County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 652 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 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 KAMA 260158 FFWAMA NMC041-260400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 857 PM CDT (757 PM MDT) MON MAY 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT (1000 PM MDT) FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...ROOSEVELT COUNTY AT 854 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER ROOSEVELT COUNTY JUST NORTH OF ELIDA AND SOUTH OF PORTALES. HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND SMALL HAIL CAN EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. AT 830 PM... ROOSEVELT SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALL ELIDA WITHIN THE PAST HOUR. SINCE LITTLE TO NO MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO FALL OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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.
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, May 25, 3:39 PM MDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-252235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 437 PM CDT MON MAY 25 1992 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE... AT 425 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE CENTRAL TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE LEADING EDGE EXTENDED FROM NEAR ARNETT OKLAHOMA ..SOUTHWEST TO NEAR PAMPA TEXAS..THEN WEST ALONG THE CANADIAN RIVER TO THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO STATE LINE. STRONGEST PORTION OF THE LINE WAS JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE PAMPA AREA..AND NEAR THE WEST END OF LAKE MEREDITH. THE LINE WAS DRIFTING SOUTH AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. DURING THE PASSAGE OF THIS LINE..RESIDENTS OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..SMALL HAIL..AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. BOATERS ON LAKE MEREDITH SHOULD KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE TO THE SKY AND SEEK SAFE HARBOR IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, May 25, 7:43 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
TXZ001>012-COZ015>017-NMZ005-009-013-OKZ001>004-008-009-012-013- KSZ003-006-260240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 845 PM CDT MON MAY 25 1992 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS INTO EAST- CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... AT 825 PM CDT AMARILLO RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM NEAR TURKEY TEXAS..WEST TO PLAINVIEW..TO NEAR ELIDA IN ROOSEVELT COUNTY NEW MEXICO. STRONGEST PORTION OF THE LINE WAS LAMB COUNTY IN THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS..AND JUST NORTH OF ELIDA NEW MEXICO. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN PORTALES NEW MEXICO REPORTED UP TO TWO INCHS OF RAIN HAD FALLEN AT ELIDA THIS EVENING ..HOWEVER NO FLOODING HAD BEEN REPORTED. THE LINE WAS DRIFTING SOUTH AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO SHOULD BE BE ALERT FOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS DURING THE PASSAGE OF THIS LINE. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO ACCOMPAY ITS PASSAGE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 10:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Roosevelt | 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.