Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1997, 12:35 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 27, 1997, 12:35 AM MDT (06:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1997, 1:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 40 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 06:34 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, 6.6 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
- 780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 Jun 26, 7:32 PM MDT, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 7:32 PM MDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 831 PM CDT THU JUN 26 1997 CURRENT FORECASTS LOOK ON TRACK... NO SUGGESTED CHANGES. WV IMAGERY SHOWING NICE CIRCULATION OVER NORTHWESTERN MEXICO WITH A POSSIBLE SPEED MAX ROTATING AROUND ITS EASTERN SIDE JUST ENTERING THE BIG BEND ATTM. KMAF 88D REFLECTIVITY HAS SHOWN A DECREASING TREND IN CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY OVER DAVIS MOUNTAINS THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS BUT RECOMMEND KEEPING SLIGHT POPS DUE TO AFOREMENTIONED FEATURE AND ADEQUATE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN PLACE. ELSEWHERE... 88D CONTINUES TO SHOW WIDELY SCATTERED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SE NM AND NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. THIS AREA SHOWING A DECREASING TREND ON ITS EASTERN SIDE BUT CONVECTION OVER LEA COUNTY CONTINUES TO HOLD ITS OWN. NICE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY ALSO EVIDENT OVER NORTHERN ANDREWS AND NORTHERN DAWSON COUNTIES. WITH ONGOING ACTIVITY AND OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES WLILL MAKE NO CHANGES TO CURRENT FORECASTS AS IT APPEARS ON TRACK. EARLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 11:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 2:49 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.