Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2002, 10:31 PM MDT for Lea 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
- Aug 1, 2002, 10:31 PM MDT (04:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2002, 1:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 020431 FFWMAF NMC025-020730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1030 PM MDT THU AUG 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 130 AM MDT * AT 1030 PM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING OVER EUNICE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTH OF HOBBS. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... EUNICE...HOBBS...NADINE...MONUMENT...HUMBLE CITY...BUCKEYE... KNOWLES AND OIL CENTER DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3226 10360 3222 10308 3290 10308 3291 10363
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 020542 FFSMAF NMC025-020730- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1140 PM MDT THU AUG 1 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR LEA COUNTY UNTIL 130 AM MDT... AT 1110 PM MDT...THE EUNICE FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED WATER IN NUMEROUS HOMES IN EUNICE. AT 1140 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH ACROSS LEA COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO RECOGNIZE FLOOD DANGERS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED AREAS. LAT...LON 3261 10353 3225 10352 3227 10309 3263 10310
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 10:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 5 days |
| Aug 2, 5:30 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:36 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:30 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:54 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
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.