Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 166, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 27, 2004, 9:14 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 6 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 27, 2004, 9:14 AM MDT (15:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2004, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lea County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 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 271515
FFWMAF
NMC025-272115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
914 AM MDT MON SEP 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 315 PM MDT
* AT 900 AM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED HIGHWAY
82...3 MILES WEST OF LOVINGTON...IS STILL CLOSED. AT 911 AM
MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA
OF SHOWERS OVER NORTHERN LEA COUNTY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20
MPH AND PRODUCING RAINFALL IN EXCESS OF ONE HALF INCH PER
HOUR. THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL CONTINUE THE FLASH FLOOD
POTENTIAL ACROSS NORTHERN LEA COUNTY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3289 10372 3284 10307 3355 10306 3355 10368
3339 10369 3335 10373
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 271914
FFSMAF
NMC025-272115-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
104 PM MDT MON SEP 27 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 315 PM MDT FOR NORTHERN LEA
COUNTY...
AT 100 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS CONTINUED TO REPORT
U.S. HIGHWAY 82 APPROXIMATELY 3 MILES WEST OF LOVINGTON WAS CLOSED
DUE TO WATER ON THE ROAD. TRAFFIC ALONG STATE ROUTE 18 FROM FROM
HOBBS TO LOVINGTON HAS BEEN REDUCED TO ONE LANE DUE TO WATER ON THE
ROADWAY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE. TURN
AROUND... DONT DROWN.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3289 10372 3284 10307 3355 10306 3355 10368
3339 10369 3335 10373
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 8:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 6 hr |
| Sep 26, 8:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 6 hr |
| Sep 27, 3:00 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 6 hr |
| Sep 27, 3:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 6 hr |
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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.