Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 18, 1996, 3:40 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min. 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 18, 1996, 3:40 PM MDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1996, 4:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- 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 21:43 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 12:00Z, 9.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -364 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 182144 COR FFWMAF NMC015-182240- BULLENTIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 440 PM CDT (340 PM MDT) THU JUL 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UNTIL 6 PM MDT (7 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY AT 335 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARLSBAD OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF LOVING MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... LOVING... OTIS AND CARLSBAD. SPOTTER REPORTS AT 335 PM NEAR THE CARLSBAD AIRPORT INDICATED STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF QUARTER SIZED HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNBURST RAINS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. $$ FAGEN
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 18, 1:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 1:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 232 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996 17Z SFC ANALYSIS HAD LEE TROF THAT EXTENDED FROM WRN KS ACROSS THE EXTREME NW TX PNHDL INTO ERN NM AND SW TX. MDTLY STRONG SLY WINDS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE TX PNHDL IN RESPONSE TO MIGRATORY S/W TROF CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER GREAT LAKES. TSRA DEVELOPMENT HAS ALREADY BEGUN NEAR THE TROF AXIS ALONG HIER TERRAIN OF SW TX. THIS ACTIVITY HAS DEVELOPED IN AN AREA OF MDT INSTABILITY WITH LI/S OF -6. WITH AREA PROFILERS INDICATING WEAK MID- TO UPPER-LEVEL WINDS...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS SHOULD BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS CONVECTION. CONUS UPR-LVL PATTERN TO AMPLIFY OVR THE PD AS S/W RDG DEVELOPS OVR N-CNTRL US. FURTHER S...SRN US RDG TO BUILD WWD AS HGHTS INCREASE OVER THE DESERT SW....RESULTING IN GENERAL SYNOPTIC SCALE SUBSIDENCE OVER THE FA. THIS SHOULD EFFECTIVELY BEGIN TO REDUCE THE AREAL COVERAGE OF THE PM TSRA EVEN WITH SFC TROF AND AMPLE MOISTURE REMAINING IN PLACE. FOR TONIGHT...BELIEVE THERE MIGHT BE SOME HIGH CLOUDINESS OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN IN THE FORM OF RESIDUAL CONVECTIVE DEBRIS. OTHERWISE... WL TEND TO STICK WITH PERSISTENCE WITH TEMPS. CNM 70/20 MAF 74/10 MRF 6T1/10 P07 75/0 MEAD/EARLE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 10:37 AM MDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-190500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1135 AM CDT (1035 AM MDT) THU JUL 18 1996 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS CULBERSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REAGAN UPTON BORDEN DAWSON HOWARD MIDLAND REEVES WARD BREWSTER ECTOR JEFF DAVIS PECOS SCURRY WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PRESIDIO TERRELL AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: THE MAIN FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL PRIMARILY BE OVER THE MOUNTAINS. HOWEVER... SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY DRIFT OFF THE MOUNTAINS AS THEY MOVE EAST TO NORTHEAST. THEREFORE... WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE BY AFTERNOON WEST OF A LINE FROM SANDERSON... TO FORT STOCKTON... TO WINK AND TO HOBBS. DUE TO THE LACK OF UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT... STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. HOWEVER... THE STRONGER STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. EARLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 3:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 2 hr |
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.