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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 15, 1996Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1996, 11:25 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1996, 11:25 PM MDT (05:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1996, 2:25 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2338 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 15, 8:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 8:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
916 PM CDT SAT JUN 15 1996

ANALYSIS OF WV LOOP PLACES SHORT-WAVE VORT MAX IN SOUTHERN CO OR
NORTHERN NM. DRY SLOT THROUGH EASTERN NM SHOWS UNMISTAKABLE
SIGNATURE OF TYPE B COMA CLOUD. WEAK AS IT MAY BE...IT IS STILL
PROVIDING SOME LIFT.

SUGGEST WE KEEP IN POPS ALONG TROF POSITION. AGREE WITH LBB...SOME
POPS TWEEKING APPEARS BEST BET.

NO OTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR CHANGES.

HUBER
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Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.