Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Amarillo, TX
NWS Amarillo, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 1994, 10:01 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1994, 10:01 PM MDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1994, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Amarillo, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Curry County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1293 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 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 KAMA 230401 FFWAMA NMC009-230700- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX 1101 PM CDT (1001 PM MDT) SUN MAY 22 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT (100 AM MDT) FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...CURRY COUNTY AT 957 PM MDT (1054 PM CDT)...CLOVIS POLICE DEPARTMENT CONTINUED TO INDICATE WIDESPREAD FLOODING ACROSS CURRY COUNTY. MAJOR STREET FLOODING PERSISTED IN THE CITIES OF CLOVIS AND TEXLINE. ALSO...HIGHWAYS 311 AND 18 WERE UNDER WATER WITH SEVERAL VEHICLES STRANDED. ON HIGHWAY 18 ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH CLOVIS WAS ALSO UNDER WATER. SINCE EXTENSIVE FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS CURRY COUNTY AND WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH MODERATE RAIN ARE POSSIBLE...THE FLASH FLOODING WARNING WILL BE EXTENDED UNTIL 1 AM MDT (2 PM CDT). MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR AT NIGHT. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT SINCE IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. USE CAUTION IN AND AROUND STREAMS...CREEKS OR DRAINAGE DITCHES. TAKE THE SHORTEST PATH TO REACH HIGHER GROUND...BUT DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH RISING WATER.
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
Local storm report, May 22, 9:18 PM MDT, 43 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO, TX
1018 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 1994
...SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FOR THE EVENING OF MAY 22ND...
1825 CST...DIME SIZE HAIL JUST EAST OF CLOVIS IN CURRY COUNTY NM
REPORTED BY NM STATE POLICE
1955 CST..DIME SIZE HAIL BETWEEN TUCUMCARI AND QUAY IN QUAY COUNTY NM
REPORTED BY TUCUMCARI RADIO STATION.
AC
WWUS35KBIL - Local storm report, May 22, 9:24 PM MDT, 37 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO, TX
1018 PM CDT SUN MAY 22 1994
...SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FOR THE EVENING OF MAY 22ND...
1825 CST...DIME SIZE HAIL JUST EAST OF CLOVIS IN CURRY COUNTY NM
REPORTED BY NM STATE POLICE
1955 CST..DIME SIZE HAIL BETWEEN TUCUMCARI AND QUAY IN QUAY COUNTY NM
REPORTED BY TUCUMCARI RADIO STATION.
ACThe office that day
Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Curry | 60 min |
| May 22, 6:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Curry | 3 hr |
| May 22, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Quay | 64 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.