Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 1992, 4:46 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 1992, 4:46 PM MDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1992, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Eddy County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 312254 FFWROW NMC015-010045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM ISSUED BY ALBUQUERQUE NM 446 PM MDT MON AUG 31 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...EDDY COUNTY NUMEROUS REPORTS OF GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND FLASH FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM SPOTTERS IN AND AROUND CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO SINCE 400 PM MDT. OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT THE CARLSBAD AIRPORT BETWEEN 400 PM AND 430 PM MDT. THE CARLSBAD POLICE REPORTS NUMEROUS VEHICLES HAVE BEEN STRANDED BY HIGH WATER. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HAIL AND FLASH FLOODING IS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT...WITH NEW DEVELOPMENT OCCURRING ON THE STORM/S SOUTHWEST EDGE. AS A RESULT...FLASH FLOODING WILL PERSIST UNTIL AT LEAST 645 PM MDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Aug 31, 1:50 PM MDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-312050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 249 PM CDT MON AUG 31 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE RUMBLING ACROSS THE PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 231 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED IN AN AREA NORTHEAST OF A LINE FROM LOVINGTON NEW MEXICO TO ANDREWS TEXAS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF SEMINOLE. ANOTHER AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM NEAR FORT STOCKTON WEST TO THE RIO GRANDE...AND NORTH TO NEAR GUADALUPE PASS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS INDICATED NORTHWEST OF SARAGOSA. MOVEMENT OF BOTH AREAS WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE HIGH ENOUGH TO FLOAT AWAY YOUXR VEHICLE.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 4:10 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-312350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 502 PM CDT MON AUG 31 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 435 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED OVER WEST AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE EAST OF STANTON TEXAS. ANOTHER AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM NEAR FORT STOCKTON WEST TO THE RIO GRANDE...AND NORTH TO NEAR GUADALUPE PASS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS INDICATED SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING... SMALL HAIL AND FLOODING IN LOW-LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEAATHER RAADDIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST DETAILS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AND POSSIBLY SMALL HPAIL. NEVER DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE HIGH ENOUGH TO FLOAT AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 4:14 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-312350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 502 PM CDT MON AUG 31 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 435 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED OVER WEST AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE EAST OF STANTON TEXAS. ANOTHER AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM NEAR FORT STOCKTON WEST TO THE RIO GRANDE...AND NORTH TO NEAR GUADALUPE PASS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS INDICATED SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING... SMALL HAIL AND FLOODING IN LOW-LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST DETAILS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. NEVERb DRIVE INTO A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROAD. THE DEPTH OF WATER MAY BE HIGH ENOUGH TO FLOAT AWAY YOUR VEHICLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 12:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| Aug 31, 4:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 119 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.