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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 22, 1992Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 1992, 9:17 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1992, 9:17 PM MDT (03:17 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1992, 12:30 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
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, 3.3 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 1992-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 598 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 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
598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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 230318 RRA
FFWMAF
NMC025-230630-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1017 PM CDT (917 PM MDT) FRI MAY 22 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM CDT (1230 AM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...LEA COUNTY
 
AT 1008 PM CDT(908 PM MDT)...THE HOBBS POLICE DEPARTMENT INDICATED
THAT FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS WAS STILL OCCURRING. AT 1012 PM CDT
(912 PM MDT)...THE NEW MEXICO STATE POLICE INDICATED THAT TRAVEL IS
DISCOURAGED IN LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO DUE TO WATER OVER LOW-LYING
ROADWAYS.
 
AT 1015 PM CDT(915 PM MDT)...RADAR INDICATED THAT MODERATE TO HEAVY
RAINFALL CONTINUED TO FALL OVER THE WARNED AREA. FOR THIS REASON...
FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 6:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea3 hr
May 23, 7:53 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea7 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.