Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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
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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.