Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002

Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 5, 2002Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2002, 6:38 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, 6:38 PM MDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2002, 9:30 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 147 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 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 
WGUS54 KMAF 060038
FFWMAF
NMC015-060330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
634 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT

* AT 634 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 10 MILES NORTWEST OF CARLSBAD...
  APPROACHING HIGHWAY 285. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  ARTESIA...CARLSBAD...LOVING...WHITES CITY...QUEEN...MALAGA...
  OTIS...AVALON...SEVEN RIVERS...LAKEWOOD...DAYTON...ATOKA...LOCO
  HILLS AND ESPUELA

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3206 10479 3206 10383 3291 10384 3293 10481

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS74 KMAF 060201
FFSMAF
NMC015-060330-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
752 PM MDT FRI JUL 5 2002

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR EDDY COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM MDT...

AT 740 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER OVER THE 
TRUCK ROUTE BYPASS THROUGH HAPPY VALLEY...3 MILES NORTH OF CARLSBAD. 
 
AT 745 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED 
TO INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN CARLSBAD AND ALONG ROUTE 180 
BETWEEN CARLSBAD AND WHITES CITY. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY 
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT U.S. HIGHWAY 285 AND MALAGA...SOUTHEAST
OF CARLSBAD THROUGH 915 PM MDT.

DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR
IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3209 10475 3209 10384 3291 10383 3292 10477

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 6:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	88 min
Jul 5, 7:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	77 min
Jul 5, 7:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	17 hr
Jul 6, 11:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	70 min
Jul 6, 12:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	38 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2002 Every 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.