Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 2002, 6:44 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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
- Sep 15, 2002, 6:44 AM MDT (12:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2002, 8:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 2 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 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 151244 FFWMAF NMC015-151445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 644 AM MDT SUN SEP 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 845 AM MDT * AT 639 AM MDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN EDDY COUNTY... FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ARTESIA...TO NEAR CARLSBAD...TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF WHITES CITY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT AROUND 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE... AVALON...CARLSBAD...DAYTON...LAKEWOOD...LOVING...MALAGA...OTIS... QUEEN...SEVEN RIVERS...WHITES CITY...AND DARK CANYON DRAW IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER A FLOODED ROAD. THE ROAD MAY BE WASHED OUT. 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. FLOODING IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. HEAVY RAINFALL...EVEN IN THE DISTANT...CAN CREATE SUDDEN FLOWS CAPABLE OF OVERTAKING CAMPERS AND HIKERS. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW LAT...LON 3203 10390 3269 10418 3287 10481 3204 10480
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS74 KMAF 151413 FFSMAF NMC015-151445- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 812 AM MDT SUN SEP 15 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR EDDY COUNTY UNTIL 845 AM MDT... AT 735 AM MDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED TWO TO THREE FEET OF WATER RUNNING OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS ALONG DARK CANYON DRAW SOUTHWEST OF CARLSBAD...AND ALONG HIGHWAY 137 BETWEEN QUEEN AND CARLSBAD. THE THUNDERSTORMS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FLASH FLOODING HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND COVERAGE...AND THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED. HOWEVER...FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL CONTINUE. 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 3283 10465 3201 10474 3202 10382 3287 10388
000 WGUS74 KMAF 151446 FFSMAF NMC015-151545- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 845 AM MDT SUN SEP 15 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR EDDY COUNTY IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALL BUT ENDED OVER EDDY COUNTY. CONSEQUENTLY...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER...RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL EARLIER SUNDAY MORNING WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ARROYOS...DRAWS...BAR DITCHES...AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS. IN PARTICULAR...LOW WATER CROSSINGS WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF CARLSBAD WILL EXPERIENCE HIGH WATER THROUGH MIDDAY. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3254 10478 3207 10479 3205 10376 3258 10384
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.