Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1996, 7:47 PM MDT for Eddy County, 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
- Aug 3, 1996, 7:47 PM MDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1996, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 040149 FFWMAF NMC015-025-040415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 847 PM CDT (747 PM MDT) SAT AUG 3 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM MDT (1115 PM CDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHWESTERN LEA COUNTY ...SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE REDEVELOPING AND MOVING OVER THE SAME AREA IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST EDDY AND SOUTHWEST LEA COUNTIES. THE THREATENED AREA IS FROM NEAR HALFWAY IN LEA COUNTY TO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF MALAGA IN EDDY COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES ARE AS HIGH AS 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN THIS SYSTEM. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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 Aug 3, 1:08 PM MDT, 6 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 1:08 PM MDT, 6 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 205 PM CDT SAT AUG 3 1996 LATEST VIS SHOWING CONVECTION OVER DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. KMAF 88D REFL PRODUCT SHOWS DBZ VALUES APPROACHING 55 ON SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS OVER JEFF DAVIS COUNTY. STORM MOTION APPEARS TO BE EAST AT 15 MPH. VWP SHOWING A UNIDIRECTIONAL WIND FIELD FROM THE SURFACE TO ABOUT 8K AGL FROM THE SOUTH. LATEST WV IMAGERY SHOWS VORT MAX OVER SOUTHWESTERN NM CONTINUING TO MOVE EASTWARD. THIS FEATURE WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT... MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. H7 AND H85 THTE RIDGE REMAINS OVER THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH 24 HOURS. HOWEVER... IT IS PROGRESSING EASTWARD WITH TIME. AS A RESULT SUSPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE CLOSER TO THE PERMIAN BASIN OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. APPEARS MODELS ARE IN GENERALLY AGREEMENT WITH PROGRESSIVE WEATHER PATTERN. HOWEVER... NGM SEEMS A LITTLE TO AGRESSIVE WITH DEEPENING H5 LOW OVER WESTERN CANADA. DESPITE THIS... APPEARS H5 RIDGE THAT HAS BEEN CONTROLLING OUR WEATHER WILL BE PUSHED EASTWARD. WITH SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE STREAMING IN AND H7 TEMPERATURES COOLING SOMEWHAT EXPECT RAIN CHANCES TO RETURN TO THE PERMIAN BASIN OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. HOWEVER... FOR THE SHORT TERM BELIEVE RAIN CHANCES WILL REMAIN OVER MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY. AS FOR TEMPERATURES... WILL GO WITH PERSISTENCE AS LOWER LEVELS NOT CHANGING MUCH. CNM 73/20 MAF 74/0 MRF 65/20 P07 78/0 EARLE
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.