Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 2012, 6:36 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
- Aug 21, 2012, 6:36 PM MDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2012, 9:30 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), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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, 0.6 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
430 WGUS54 KMAF 220036 FFWMAF NMC015-220330- /O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0026.120822T0036Z-120822T0330Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 636 PM MDT TUE AUG 21 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 930 PM MDT * AT 630 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM NEAR CARLSBAD PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. NEARLY AN INCH OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN WITH THIS STORM AND FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... CARLSBAD... LOVING... MALAGA... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. && LAT...LON 3264 10449 3260 10405 3209 10404 3217 10449 $$
1 follow-up statement
855 WGUS74 KMAF 220134 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 734 PM MDT TUE AUG 21 2012 NMC015-220330- /O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0026.000000T0000Z-120822T0330Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ EDDY- 734 PM MDT TUE AUG 21 2012 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY... AT 730 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARLSBAD AND ANOTHER STORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF HOPE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. OVER 1.27 INCHES OF RAIN WAS REPORTED AT THE CARLSBAD AIRPORT FROM AN EARLIER STORM AND FLASH FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ON US 180/62. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...SEVEN RIVERS...LAKEWOOD...AVALON...CARLSBAD NORTH... CARLSBAD...OTIS AND LOVING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. && LAT...LON 3264 10449 3260 10405 3209 10404 3217 10449 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 6:16 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 119 min |
Nearby
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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.