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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2012, 6:22 PM MDT for Eddy 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2012, 6:22 PM MDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2012, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
040
WGUS54 KMAF 060022
FFWMAF
NMC015-060315-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0020.120706T0022Z-120706T0315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
622 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 915 PM MDT
* AT 617 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED
A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS 6 MILES SOUTHWEST TO 10 MILES WEST OF
WHITES CITY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING
OVER 1 INCH OF RAINFALL PER HOUR...AND WITH ALREADY SATURATED GROUND
AND REPORTS OF FLOODING IN LAST CHANCE ARROYO ALONG STATE HIGHWAY
137...FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WHITES CITY
AND QUEEN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
STREAMS AND DRAINAGES AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
MIDDLE ROCKY ARROYO...ROCKY ARROYO...SOUTH SEVEN RIVERS...FANNING
DRAW...PECOS RIVER...DUNNAWAY DRAW...SHEEP DRAW...LAST CHANCE
CANYON...DARK CANYON...BLACK RIVER...NORTH ROCKY ARROYO...INDIAN
CREEK...DOUBLE CANYON DRAW...CROOKED CREEK...OWL DRAW...RED BLUFF
DRAW...HAY HOLLOW...MARTHA CREEK AND SEGREST DRAW.
FLASH FLOODING OF CREEKS AND STREAMS... LOW WATER CROSSINGS...
NORMALLY DRY WASHES AND ARROYOS... AND LOW LYING FARMLAND IS LIKELY.
DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS.
&&
LAT...LON 3251 10485 3240 10431 3231 10426 3200 10427
3201 10485
$$1 follow-up statement
279
WGUS74 KMAF 060127
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
727 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2012
NMC015-060315-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0020.000000T0000Z-120706T0315Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EDDY-
727 PM MDT THU JUL 5 2012
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM MDT/1015 PM
CDT/ FOR SOUTHWESTERN EDDY COUNTY...
AT 722 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING NEAR 1 INCH OF RAINFALL
PER HOUR OVER THE WARNED AREA. THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY
LEAD TO FLOODING OF SOME ROADS IN SOUTHWESTERN EDDY COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND COUNTRY ROADS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
STREAMS AND DRAINAGES AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO...
MIDDLE ROCKY ARROYO...ROCKY ARROYO...SOUTH SEVEN RIVERS...FANNING
DRAW...PECOS RIVER...DUNNAWAY DRAW...SHEEP DRAW...LAST CHANCE
CANYON...DARK CANYON...BLACK RIVER...NORTH ROCKY ARROYO...INDIAN
CREEK...DOUBLE CANYON DRAW...CROOKED CREEK...OWL DRAW...RED BLUFF
DRAW...HAY HOLLOW...MARTHA CREEK AND SEGREST DRAW.
&&
LAT...LON 3251 10485 3240 10431 3231 10426 3200 10427
3201 10485
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 11:01 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:40 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.