Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2006, 9:29 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
- Jun 22, 2006, 9:29 PM MDT (03:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2006, 12:30 AM 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 Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 9:50 PM MDT | FLOOD | Carlsbad, NM | UP TO 1 FOOT OF WATER COVERING SOME CITY STREETS IN CARLSBAD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 230332 FFWMAF NMC015-230630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 929 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 1230 AM MDT * AT 925 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF CARLSBAD TO NEAR WHITES CITY...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... CARLSBAD... CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK... U.S. 62/180 FROM CARLSBAD SOUTHWEST TO THE NEW MEXICO/TEXAS STATE LINE... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY... 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. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND DRAWS...ROADS AND ROADSIDE CULVERTS. THE HEAVY RAINS MAY TRIGGER ROCK AND MUDSLIDES IN STEEP TERRAIN. 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 3203 10478 3202 10405 3260 10420 3232 10454 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS74 KMAF 230357 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1057 PM CDT THU JUN 22 2006 NMC015-230630- EDDY NM- 957 PM MDT THU JUN 22 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM MDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY... AT 950 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLOODING IN CARLSBAD WITH UP TO 1 FOOT OF WATER COVERING SOME LOCAL ROADS. AT 950 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDESTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS ACROSS EDDY COUNTY...GENERALLY FROM CARLSBAD SOUTHWARD TO WHITES CITY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...CARLSBAD...CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK...U.S. 62 180 FROM CARLSBAD SOUTHWEST TO THE NEW MEXICO TEXAS STATE LINE... AND RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 3203 10478 3202 10405 3260 10420 3232 10454 $$
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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.