Alert archive / New Mexico / Areal Flood Advisories in 2012
Areal Flood Advisory 113, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 19, 2012, 1:20 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2012, 1:20 AM MDT (07:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2012, 3:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2094 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Aug 18, 5:16 PM MDT, 8 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 5:16 PM MDT, 8 hours 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 18, 12:43 PM MDT, 12 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 143 PM CDT SAT AUG 18 2012 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-191845- 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- 143 PM CDT SAT AUG 18 2012 /1243 PM MDT SAT AUG 18 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM ACROSS THE TEXAS PANHANDLE THIS EVENING AND MOVE SOUTH OVERNIGHT. THESE STORMS MAY AFFECT THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH COULD LEAD TO LOCAL FLASH FLOODING... ESPECIALLY OVER AREAS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND MONDAY ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE BUT MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:31 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson, Loving, Reeves | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:20 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 1:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 3 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Advisories in New Mexico, 2012Every areal flood advisory in 2012
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.