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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 9, 1996Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 1996, 10:39 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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: Jul 9, 1996, 10:39 PM MDT (04:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1996, 12:40 AM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 4.7 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 100440
FFWMAF
NMC025-100640-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1139 PM CDT (1039 PM MDT) TUE JUL 9 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1240 AM MDT (140 AM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...CENTRAL LEA COUNTY
 
MIDLAND RADAR SHOWS THAT HEAVY RAINS OVER CENTRAL LEA COUNTY HAVE
CONTINUED TO FALL WITH RADAR ESTIMATED TOTALS TO 4 INCHES IN SOME
AREAS THIS EVENING. AUTHORITIES REPORT STANDING WATER HAS ACCUMULATED
UP TO 2 TO 3 FEET CAUSING ROAD CLOSURES AT SOME LOWER LYING LOCATIONS
IN DOWNTOWN LOVINGTON.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
THE HEAVY RAINFALL AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS MAY R0ESULT
IN CONTINUED FLOODING OF ROAD INTERSECTIONS AND LOW-LYING AREAS.

PENDERGRAST
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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 Jul 9, 1:30 PM MDT, 9 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 1:30 PM MDT, 9 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
230 PM CDT (130 PM MDT) TUE JUL 9 1996

KMAF 88D SHOWS A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING NEAR THE
EASTERN SLOPES OF THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS...EXTENDING FROM NEAR ALPINE
TO FORT STOCKTON.  18Z ANALYSIS SHOWS A DIFFUSE COLD FRONT EXTENDING
FROM JUST SOUTH OF ABILENE THRU BGS...JUST NORTH OF WINK TO NORTH
OF CARLSBAD.  LIGHTNING DATA ALSO SHOWS AN INCREASE IN DAVIS MOUNTAIN
ACTIVITY OVER THE PAST HOUR.

ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS DEVELOPED ALONG THE
RIO GRANDE NEAR THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATED WITH
A WESTWARD DRIFTING UPPER LEVEL VORTEX.

WITH LIS AROUND -3...EXPECT THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND THE EASTERN
SLOPES OF THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR
SCATTERED TSTMS INTO THE EVENING HOURS.  WITH MODELS IN GOOD
AGREEMENT...OVERNIGHT LOWS AND POPS ARE A BLEND OF GUIDANCE AND
PERSISTANCE.

CNM  70/0
MAF  70/20
MRF  62/10
P07  75/10<

FAGEN

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1996 Every 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.