Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 91, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2005, 6:48 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2005, 6:48 PM MDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 194 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:30 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | Loving, NM | SEVERAL STREETS HAD WATER RUNNING OVER THEM |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS54 KMAF 150050
FFWMAF
NMC015-150345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
648 PM MDT SUN AUG 14 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 945 PM MDT
* AT 646 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR 2 INCHES
PER HOUR OVER EASTERN EDDY COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THESE HEAVY RAINS
WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN EDDY COUNTY AND WERE MOVING NORTH AT
10 MPH.
FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS...AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE
ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3202 10472 3203 10374 3249 10373 3250 10384
3287 10382 3285 10420 3247 10462
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS74 KMAF 150210
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
907 PM CDT SUN AUG 14 2005
NMC015-150345-
EDDY-
807 PM MDT SUN AUG 14 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM MDT FOR EDDY
COUNTY...
AT 730 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED WATER
RUNNING OVER SEVERAL STREETS IN LOVING. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
RAINFALL AMOUNTS NEAR 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTH
AT 10 MPH ACROSS MAINLY EASTERN EDDY COUNTY.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING
INCLUDE...LOVING...OTIS...AND LOCO HILLS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3202 10472 3203 10374 3249 10373 3250 10384
3287 10382 3285 10420 3247 10462
$$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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.