Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2002, 5:52 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2002, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2002, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Eddy County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS54 KMAF 052352 FFWMAF NMC015-060245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 547 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESST EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 845 PM MDT * AT 543 PM MDT...A SPOTTER REPORTED WATER 3 FEET DEEP OVER COUNTY ROAD 12...3 MILES SOUTH OF HOPE. HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING RISING WATER IN WALNUT CREEK. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... HOPE...ARTESIA...ATOKA...AND WALNUT DRAW. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3243 10481 3253 10431 3294 10431 3293 10481
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS54 KMAF 052352 CCA FFWMAF NMC015-060245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 547 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWEST EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 845 PM MDT * AT 543 PM MDT...A SPOTTER REPORTED WATER 3 FEET DEEP OVER COUNTY ROAD 12...3 MILES SOUTH OF HOPE. HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING RISING WATER IN WALNUT CREEK. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... HOPE...ARTESIA...ATOKA...AND WALNUT DRAW. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3243 10481 3253 10431 3294 10431 3293 10481
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 19 hr |
| Jul 4, 9:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.