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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 9, 2008Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood watch at Jul 9, 2008, 3:40 AM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jul 9, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 33 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 2008, 3:40 AM MDT (09:40 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 9, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jul 10, 2008, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 33 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Flood severity: None

Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 280 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 573 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jul 9, 3:02 AM MDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:02 AM MDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 12:29 PM MDT, 15 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
129 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-091830-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES-
DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL-
VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-
LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND-GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN-
DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU-
BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-
129 PM CDT TUE JUL 8 2008 /1229 PM MDT TUE JUL 8 2008/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW
MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON
AND INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. GREATEST CHANCES WILL BE OVER THE
EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN AND LOWER TRANS PECOS REGION... AND INTO
SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THIS ACTIVITY WILL
BE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. IN ADDITION...ROCK AND MUDSLIDES
COULD BE POSSIBLE IN THE HIGHER MOUNTAIN TERRAINS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY
AND INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. WHILE ALL AREAS WILL SEE RAIN
CHANCES...BEST CHANCE WILL RESIDE OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO.
EXPECT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AGAIN...WHICH WILL LEAD TO
ADDITIONAL FLOODING POTENTIAL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES...
AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/
HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 7:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Lea	83 min
Jul 8, 7:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	2 hr
Jul 8, 8:32 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	4 hr
Jul 9, 5:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	110 min
Jul 9, 5:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Lea	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in New Mexico, 2008 Flash Flood Watches in Texas, 2008 Every flash flood watch in 2008

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.