Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 1992, 10:00 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, 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1992, 12:00 AM 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, 4.0 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 260401 FFWAMA NMC041-260600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1100 PM CDT (1000 PM MDT) MON MAY 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT(MIDNIGHT MDT) FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...ROOSEVELT COUNTY AT 1050 PM CDT (950 PM MDT)...ROOSEVELT COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED ONE FOOT OR MORE OF WATER FLOWING OVER SECTIONS OF US 70 BETWEEN PORTALES AND ELIDA. DUE TO THIS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION... US 70 FROM PORTALES TO ELIDA WILL BE CLOSED FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT THREE HOURS. AT 1050 PM...RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE MAINLY LIGHT SHOWERS OVER NORTHERN ROOSEVELT AND SOUTHERN CURRY COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE THE ALREADY DANGEROUS FLOODING SITUATION WORSE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE 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, May 25, 7:43 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 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, 7:57 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.