Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 20, 1992, 4:35 PM MDT for Chaves County, Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 20, 1992, 4:35 PM MDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 1992, 5:27 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 232 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 KROW 202235
FFWROW
NMC005-015-210100-
BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM
435 PM MDT WED MAY 20 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ROSWELL HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN
SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO:
CHAVES AND EDDY
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS ACTUALLY
BEEN REPORTED. TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IMMEDIATELY.
REPORTS OF HEAVY RAINFALL FROM NORTH OF ROSWELL AND SOUTH OF CARLSBAD
HAVE BEEN RECEIVED SINCE 300 PM MDT TODAY.
THE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING THE HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT
THE SOUTHEAST PLAINS AND WEST INTO THE MOUNTAINS.
REMEMBER...HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS CAN CAUSE
FLASH FLOODING IN THE LOWER ELEVATIONS EVEN THOUGH THE LOWER
AREAS ARE NOT EXPERIENCING RAIN AT THE TIME.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, 3 hours 48 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, 3 hours 44 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, 2 hours 51 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, 1 hour 56 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, 3:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 8 hr |
| May 20, 3:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Chaves | 50 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.