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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 2, 2007Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2007, 5:25 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 2, 2007, 5:25 AM MDT (11:25 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2007, 9:30 AM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 283 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS54 KMAF 021129
FFWMAF
NMC015-021530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
525 AM MDT WED MAY 2 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

* UNTIL 930 AM MDT

* AT 524 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL COVERING MUCH OF EDDY 
  COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES 
  INDICATED UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN
  EDDY COUNTY. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL WITH RAINFALL RATES 
  OVER 1 INCH PER HOUR IS LIKELY...WHICH WILL AGGRAVATE 
  FLOODING OVER EDDY COUNTY.    
  
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SEVEN
  RIVERS...LOCO HILLS...LAKEWOOD...COTTONWOOD...DAYTON...CARLSBAD
  NORTH...CARLSBAD...AVALON...ATOKA AND ARTESIA.

FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... STREETS AND UNDERPASSES...LOW
WATER CROSSINGS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE
ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.

IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT TAKES ONLY A FEW INCHES OF
FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.

MOST FLOODING DEATHS ARE PREVENTABLE... AND MANY OCCUR WHEN MOTORISTS
DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. IT IS NEVER SAFE TO DRIVE ON FLOODED
ROADS. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF RAPIDLY FLOWING WATER TO 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 3203 10482 3203 10374 3250 10373 3250 10383
      3294 10383 3293 10480

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 9:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy49 min
May 2, 2:05 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy55 min
May 2, 2:59 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
May 2, 3:05 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchMAFEddy, Lea17 hr
May 2, 4:10 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy50 min
May 2, 4:56 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy64 min
May 2, 5:35 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea4 hr
May 2, 5:46 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea59 min
May 2, 6:51 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea54 min
May 2, 2:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy54 min
May 2, 2:50 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
May 2, 3:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy60 min
May 2, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy42 min
May 2, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy48 min
May 2, 5:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea60 min
May 2, 5:38 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
May 2, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea53 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007

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.