Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002

Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 2, 2002Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2002, 8:30 AM 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 2, 2002, 8:30 AM MDT (14:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2002, 11:30 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), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1386 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 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.

846 
WGUS54 KMAF 021430
FFWMAF
NMC025-021730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
824 AM MDT FRI AUG 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1130 AM MDT

* AT 824 AM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED 
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS SOUTHERN
  AND WESTERN LEA COUNTY. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE
  MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  HALFWAY...MALJAMAR...BUCKEYE...ROUTE 128 WEST OF JAL...ROUTE 176

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL INUNDATE ROADS AND FARM AND RANCH LAND. DO NOT
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS! NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOWING WATER
IN A CAR OR ON FOOT.

LAT...LON 3205 10369 3205 10309 3351 10309 3355 10367
          3281 10376 3241 10371 3214 10368  





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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 10:31 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea3 hr
Aug 1, 10:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea5 days
Aug 2, 5:30 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy, Lea3 hr
Aug 2, 7:36 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
Aug 2, 1:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
Aug 2, 1:54 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 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.