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Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 26, 1996Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 1996, 12:00 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
Aug 26, 1996, 12:00 PM MDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 1996, 3:00 PM 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 18:00 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, 6.0 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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 261800
FFWMAF
NMC015-262100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
100 PM CDT (NOON MDT) MON AUG 26 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MDT (400 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...EDDY COUNTY
 
AT 1150 AM MDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED STREET FLOODING
OVERRUNNING ROAD CURBS IN CARLSBAD AND WATER OVERRUNNING SECONDARY
ROADS IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS IN EASTERN EDDY COUNTY. WEATHER SPOTTERS
AT THE GUADALUPE NATIONAL PARK HAVE REPORTED NEARLY 2 INCHES OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN THIS MORNING...WITH RADAR INDICATING THAT THESE
HEAVIER RAINS HAVE MOVED NORTHWARD INTO PARTS OF EDDY COUNTY...
CONTINUING THE THREAT OF ADDED RAINS AND CONTINUED FLASH FLOODING.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT IS
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID
CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
 
AREA RESIDENTS SHOULD MONITOR FLOOD CONDITIONS... AND BE PREPARED
TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND... SHOULD FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. IF FLASH
FLOODING IS OBSERVED... ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND 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 26, 8:46 AM MDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 8:46 AM MDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
946 AM CDT (846 AM MDT) MON AUG 26 1996

WATER VAPOR LOOP AND MORNING MAF SOUNDING INDICATES DEEP LAYER
TROPICAL MOISTURE PERSISTS OVER FORECAST AREA. KMAF RADAR AND
WATER VAPOR PICTURES SUGGEST THAT THE HEAVIER RAINS EXTEND FROM
SOUTHWEST TEXAS INTO SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO.  AFTER COORDINATION
WITH LBB...THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS WILL BE
EXTENDED THROUGH 5 PM TODAY...AND WILL BE EXTENDED NORTHWARD
TO INCLUDE THE COUNTIES OF PRESIDIO...JEFF DAVIS...CULBERSON
AND REEVES.  THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING REMAINS...BUT
RADAR ESTIMATES AND WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE NO FLASH
FLOODING OCCURING AT THIS TIME.

ALSO MONITORING AREA FOR LOW CEILINGS AND FOG...MAF AT 1430Z
HAS 500 FT CEILINGS AND 1 1/2 MILE VISIBILITY...ONE MILE VISIBILITY
WAS REPORTED AT ALPINE OVER THE PAST HOUR...400 FT CEILINGS AND FOG
AT HOB. THESE CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN REFLECTED IN SHORT TERMH FORECAST
UPDATES. EXPECT THESE CONDITIONS TO PERSIST INTO THE LATE
MORNING...HOLDING AREA TEMPERATURES NEARLY STEADY INTO THE AFTERNOON.

FAGEN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 26, 11:43 AM MDT, 17 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-270500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1243 PM CDT (1143 AM MDT) MON AUG 26 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:
A TROPICAL AIR MASS CONTINUES OVER WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO.  SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING DUE TO DAYTIME HEATING AND
CONTINUED TROPICAL MOISTURE MOVING ACROSS THIS AREA.

THE MAIN THREAT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF
HEAVY RAINS ACROSS ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS RESULTING IN FLASH
FLOODING.  A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR
CULBERSON...REEVES...JEFF DAVIS AND PRESIDIO COUNTIES WHERE THE
HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING CURRENTLY EXISTS.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

FAGEN

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.