Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 178, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 29, 2004, 11:48 PM 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 29, 2004, 11:48 PM MDT (05:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2004, 5:45 AM 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 radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 475 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1263 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 300549
FFWMAF
NMC025-301145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1148 PM MDT WED SEP 29 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 545 AM MDT
* AT 1140 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
A LINE OF SHOWERS OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
MOVING ACROSS LEA COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT RAINFALL RATES IN
EXCESS OF ONE INCH PER HOUR ARE ACCOMPANYING SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS. THE GROUNDS REMAIN SATURATED ACROSS LEA COUNTY FROM
HEAVY RAINS THAT HAVE FALLEN THE PAST FEW DAYS. ADDITIONAL HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...
ROADS...UNDERPASSES...AND URBAN AREAS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CROSSROADS...
TATUM...
MALJAMAR...
LOVINGTON...
HALFWAY...
HOBBS...
EUNICE...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE...AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. ONLY A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER CAN QUICKLY CARRY
AWAY YOUR VEHICLE. 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 3204 10371 3202 10310 3356 10308 3354 10371
3278 10377 3255 10374 3240 10370
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS74 KMAF 300753
FFSMAF
NMC025-301145-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
153 AM MDT THU SEP 30 2004
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 AM MDT FOR LEA COUNTY...
AT 143 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING
FROM NEAR MCDONALD...TO JUST NORTH OF HOBBS. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM HALFWAY TO EUNICE...AND ACROSS RURAL
PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT ONE AND A HALF
TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PORTIONS OF LEA COUNTY...FROM
WEST OF HOBBS TO NEAR HALFWAY.
FLOODING IS LIKELY IN URBAN AND LOW LYING AREAS...AND MAY ALSO BE
OCCURING ON RURAL ROADS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN LEA
COUNTY...PARTICULARLY ALONG HIGHWAY 62 180...AND HIGHWAY 176 WEST OF
HOBBS AND EUNICE.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3204 10371 3202 10310 3356 10308 3354 10371
3278 10377 3255 10374 3240 10370
$$000
WGUS74 KMAF 301145
FFSMAF
NMC025-301155-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
544 AM MDT THU SEP 30 2004
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LEA COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE
AT 545 AM MDT...
AT 540 AM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT
FLOODING IN HOBBS HAD SUBSIDED. AT 543 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A FEW SHOWERS OVER FAR EASTERN LEA
COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE THREAT FOR SIGNIFICANT FLOODING
HAS ENDED...AND THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3204 10371 3202 10310 3356 10308 3354 10371
3278 10377 3255 10374 3240 10370
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 11:03 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 6 hr |
| Sep 30, 5:00 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 6 hr |
| Sep 30, 10:58 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 6 hr |
| Sep 30, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 62 min |
| Sep 30, 5:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.