Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 8, 1995, 11:16 PM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 119 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 1995, 11:16 PM MDT (05:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1995, 1:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County De Baca County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 090516 FFWROW NMC011-090715- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM ISSUED BY ALBUQUERQUE NM 1116 PM MDT FRI SEP 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE...... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...DE BACA COUNTY AT 1110 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS ORIENTED FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS CENTRAL DE BACA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EASTWARD AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR BUT BECAUSE OF THE WEST TO EAST ORIENTATION OF THE BAND...STORMS ARE REPEATEDLY TRACKING OVER THE SAME AREAS. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT TWO TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN THE SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS OF DE BACA COUNTY THIS EVENING WITH ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE UNTIL AROUND 115 AM MDT. 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 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
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 5:43 PM MDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-090050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 643 PM CDT (543 PM MDT) FRI SEP 8 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... AT 625 PM CDT (525 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS IN PARTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS CONTINUED THEIR RAPID DEVELOPMENT. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE SCATTERED OVER THE AREA FROM NORTH OF SIERRA BLANCA TO NORTHWEST OF PRESIDIO AND TO NORTHEAST OF FORT DAVIS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WERE SOUTHEAST OF VAN HORN...NORTHEAST OF PRESIDIO AND NEAR ALPINE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 6:58 PM MDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-090200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 758 PM CDT (658 PM MDT) FRI SEP 8 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP IN PARTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS... AT 725 PM CDT (625 PM MDT)...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS AND OTHER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM NORTHEAST OF SIERRA BLANCA TO WEST OF FORT DAVIS AND TO NORTHWEST OF PRESIDIO...AND TO EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF ALPINE. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED NEAR MARFA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 7:38 PM MDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-090245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 838 PM CDT (738 PM MDT) FRI SEP 8 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DECREASING IN INTENSITY OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS... AT 825 PM CDT (725 PM MDT)...MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DECREASE IN INTENSITY OF MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM NORTHEAST OF SIERRA BLANCA TO SOUTHEAST OF ALPINE AND FROM NORTHWEST OF PRESIDIO TO WEST OF FORT DAVIS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS STILL INDICATED NORTHEAST OF PRESIDIO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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.