Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2002, 5:30 AM MDT for Eddy County, 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 2, 2002, 5:30 AM MDT (11:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2002, 8:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:31 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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.
611 WGUS54 KMAF 021130 FFWMAF NMC015-025-021430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 526 AM MDT FRI AUG 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERHN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO EASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 830 AM MDT * AT 526 AM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 16 MILES SOUTH OF HALFWAY...OR ABOUT 31 MILES EAST OF CARLSBAD...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... HIGHWAYS 128 AND 176 BETWEEN MALAGA AND HALFWAY...LOVING... MALAGA...HALFWAY AND RURAL AREAS JUST SOUTH OF MALJAMAR STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN LOCATED IN REEVES COUNTY OF WEST TEXAS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST LEA AND SOUTHEAST EDDY COUNTIES INCREASING THE THREAT FOR FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING THIS MORNING. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3204 10410 3204 10358 3294 10355 3288 10423 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 10:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 5 days |
| 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
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.