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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 23, 1992Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 1992, 7:53 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 7 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 1992, 7:53 AM MDT (13:53 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1992, 8:00 AM MDT
In force
7 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 302 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, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 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, El Paso Intl Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 220 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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
May 22, 6:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea3 hr
May 22, 9:17 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea3 hr

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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.