Alert archive / New Mexico / Areal Flood Warnings in 2013
Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this areal flood warning at Sep 12, 2013, 2:23 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 6 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
- Sep 12, 2013, 2:23 AM MDT (08:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2013, 8:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 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), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 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, 8.4 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1412 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 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 warning 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 warning went out at Sep 12, 12:09 AM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 12:09 AM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 11, 12:20 PM MDT, 14 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 120 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-121830- 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- 120 PM CDT WED SEP 11 2013 /1220 PM MDT WED SEP 11 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS ALL AREAS...ESPECIALLY AREAS WEST OF THE PECOS RIVER. MOISTURE LEVELS WILL BE HIGH AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE. SOME STORMS MAY MOVE ACROSS THE SAME AREAS THAT SAW RAINFALL THE PAST FEW DAYS INCREASING THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING IN THE MOUNTAINS. STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY OCCASIONAL TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN THURSDAY AFTERNOON FOR MAINLY THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS. ISOLATED ACTIVITY WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND WEST OF A SEMINOLE TO PECOS TO LAJITAS LINE. THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED BUT LOCAL INTEREST SHOULD STAY ABREAST TO THE LATEST FORECAST. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 6:20 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson | 6 hr |
| Sep 12, 12:13 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 2:21 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Culberson | 6 hr |
| Sep 12, 2:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson | 6 hr |
| Sep 11, 8:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 11:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 8:20 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 6 hr |
| Sep 12, 8:36 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 6 hr |
| Sep 12, 12:23 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 24 hr |
| Sep 12, 12:23 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 21 hr |
| Sep 12, 4:08 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 23 hr |
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.