Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 1994, 8:45 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 1994, 8:45 AM MDT (14:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 1994, 1:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 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, 2.8 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
- 612 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 121445 FFWMAF NMC025-121945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 945 AM CDT (845 AM MDT) THU MAY 12 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM CDT (145 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...LEA COUNTY AT 940 AM CDT...THE HOBBS POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED SOME MINOR STREET FLOODING IN THE CITY OF HOBBS. THEY ALSO ESTIMATED ABOUT 11/2 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST HOUR. WITH STORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP TO THE SOUTHWEST...MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. AS A RESULT...CONTINUED STREED FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED SINCE THE GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED FROM PREVIOUS RAINFALLS. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE OVER THE SAME AREAS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT BETWEEN 20 AND 25 MILES AN HOUR. HOWEVER...THERE IS VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT IN THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROAVDWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP 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 12, 4:31 AM MDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-121145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 531 AM CDT THU MAY 12 1994 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HOWARD AND GLASSCOCK COUNTIES THROUGH TODAY... AT 525 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ...WAS LOCATED FROM EAST OF SAN ANGELO TO WEST OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. THE HEAVIEST STORM WAS NORTHEAST OF SEMINOLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 12, 4:36 AM MDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-121145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 531 AM CDT THU MAY 12 1994 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR HOWARD AND GLASSCOCK COUNTIES THROUGH TODAY... AT 525 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ...WAS LOCATED FROM EAST OF SAN ANGELO TO WEST OF THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. THE HEAVIEST STORM WAS NORTHEAST OF SEMINOLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 56 min |
| May 11, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 55 min |
| May 12, 11:30 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 45 min |
| May 12, 1:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.