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Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 2, 2007Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2007, 6:29 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 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, 6:29 PM MDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2007, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Lea County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 2007-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 525 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2007-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 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 030032
FFWMAF
NMC025-030330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL AND NORTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT

* AT 627 PM MDT...LOVINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED FLASH
  FLOODING WAS BEGINNING TO OCCUR FROM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
  EXTENDING FROM SOUTH OF LOVINGTON NORTHWARD TO NEAR CAPROCK.  
  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING
LOCATIONS...
  LOVINGTON...
  MCDONALD
  HOBBS...
  KNOWLES...

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 3261 10365 3267 10310 3354 10314 3353 10365

$$
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 030048
FFSMAF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
746 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007

NMC025-030330-
LEA-
646 PM MDT WED MAY 2 2007

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM MDT FOR
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY...

AT 644 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING
WITH 6 TO 8 INCHES OF WATER OVER STATE ROAD 18 AT COUNTY ROAD 78.
ADDITIONAL FLOODING MAY BE ENCOUNTERED FROM LOVINGTON NORTHWESTWARD
TO SH 457.

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3261 10365 3267 10310 3354 10314 3353 10365

$$
000 
WGUS74 KMAF 030214
FFSMAF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
913 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2007

NMC025-030221-
LEA-
813 PM MDT WED MAY 2 2007

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHERN LEA
COUNTY...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE COMING TO AN END ACROSS LEA COUNTY. 
WITH THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL ENDING...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL HAS PASSED...PONDING OF WATER 
MAY CONTINUE ON SOME ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN CAUTIOUS 
AND BE PREPARED TO SLOW DOWN IF WATER IS ENCOUNTERED TO PREVENT 
HYDROPLANING AND LOSS OF VEHICLE CONTROL.

LAT...LON 3261 10365 3267 10310 3354 10314 3353 10365

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 1:28 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchMAFEddy14 hr

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.