Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 20, 1992, 3:03 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 20, 1992, 3:03 PM MDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 1992, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 304 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 KMAF 202104 FFWMAF NMC025-210500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 403 PM CDT (303 PM MDT) WED MAY 20 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT (1100 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...LEA COUNTY MIDLAND RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHWARD OVER LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO. NORMALLY DRY AREAS MAY ACCUMULATE WATER TO DEPTHS OF SEVERAL FEET OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. 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 20, 12:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-201940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 138 PM CDT WED MAY 20 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PERMIAN BASIN... AT 128 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED WEST OF ANDREWS. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO LOCATED WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON...ALSO IN VICINITY AND SOUTH OF GAIN. THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO EXTENDING SOUTH TO THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH OF OZONA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 20, 12:51 PM MDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-201940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 138 PM CDT WED MAY 20 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PERMIAN BASIN... AT 128 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED WEST OF ANDREWS. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO LOCATED WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON...ALSO IN VICINITY AND SOUTH OF GAIL. THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO EXTENDING SOUTH TO THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH OF OZONA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 20, 1:44 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-202040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 241 PM CDT WED MAY 20 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PERMIAN BASIN... AT 230 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM VICINITY OF FORT STOCKTON NORTHWARD OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO SOUTH AND WEST OF HOBBS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM EAST OF LAMESA NORTHWARD TO WEST AND EAST OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 20, 2:39 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-202140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 335 PM CDT WED MAY 20 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PERMIAN BASIN... AT 328 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM VICINITY AND SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON NORTHWARD OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO TO NORTHWEST OF HOBBS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED IN VICINITY OF LAMESA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RAfDIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 3:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Chaves | 50 min |
| May 20, 4:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Chaves, Eddy | 52 min |
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.