Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 11, 1994, 6:53 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 1994, 6:53 AM MDT (12:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1994, 11:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 4 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, 0.9 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
- 1254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 111254 FFWMAF NMC025-111700- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 753 AM CDT (653 AM MDT) WED MAY 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CDT (1100 AM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...LEA COUNTY AT 752 AM CDT (652 MDT)...THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN HOBBS REPORTED EXTENSIVE FLOODING OF LOW-LYING ROADWAYS IN THE CITY OF HOBBS...WITH HEAVY RAIN STILL OCCURRING. 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 WATERt COVERS THE ROADWAY. 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
Local storm report, May 11, 3:58 AM MDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
500 AM CDT WED MAY 11 1994
...REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS OCCURRING THE MORNING OF MAY 11
1994...
TIME COUNTY EVENT
1254 AM CDT MARTIN SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
TXC317 1.75 INCH HAIL 2 MILES
NORTHWEST OF STANTON.
1259 AM CDT MARTIN 1.00 INCH HAIL REORTED IN
TXC317 STANTON BY SPOTTER.
100 AM CDT MARTIN 1.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
TXC317 PUBLIC AT HOSPITAL IN
STANTON.
156 AM CDT HOWARD SPOTTER REPORTED 0.75
TXC227 INCH HAIL IN BIG SPRING.
203 AM CDT HOWARD 0.75 HAIL JUST WEST OF
TXC227 BIG SPRING REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.
330-338 AM CDT HOWARD SPOTTER RExPORTED TORNADO
TXC227 ON GROUND 5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF COAHOMA.Local storm report, May 11, 4:00 AM MDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
500 AM CDT WED MAY 11 1994
...REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS OCCURRING THE MORNING OF MAY 11
1994...
TIME COUNTY EVENT
1254 AM CDT MARTIN SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
TXC317 1.75 INCH HAIL 2 MILES
NORTHWEST OF STANTON.
1259 AM CDT MARTIN 1.00 INCH HAIL REORTED IN
TXC317 STANTON BY SPOTTER.
100 AM CDT MARTIN 1.75 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
TXC317 PUBLIC AT HOSPITAL IN
STANTON.
156 AM CDT HOWARD SPOTTER REPORTED 0.75
TXC227 INCH HAIL IN BIG SPRING.
203 AM CDT HOWARD 0.75 HAIL JUST WEST OF
TXC227 BIG SPRING REPORTED BY
SPOTTER.
330-338 AM CDT HOWARD SPOTTER REPORTED TORNADO
TXC227 ON GROUND 5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF COAHOMA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 50 min |
| May 10, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 52 min |
| May 10, 8:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 64 min |
| May 11, 4:41 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 64 min |
| May 11, 5:12 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 63 min |
| May 11, 7:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
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.