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Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 2014, 1:35 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 5 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
- Sep 19, 2014, 1:35 AM MDT (07:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2014, 6:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Eddy County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 189 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 699 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 811 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
772 WGUS54 KMAF 190735 FFWMAF NMC015-191230- /O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0071.140919T0735Z-140919T1230Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 135 AM MDT FRI SEP 19 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 630 AM MDT/730 AM CDT/ * AT 126 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS 7 MILES SOUTH OF WHITES CITY... OR 24 MILES SOUTH OF CARLSBAD...MOVING EAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SOUTHEAST OF CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK OVER THE PAST 3 HOURS. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... MALAGA... 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 3231 10438 3232 10372 3200 10373 3200 10467 $$
1 follow-up statement
271 WGUS74 KMAF 190836 FFSMAF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 236 AM MDT FRI SEP 19 2014 NMC015-191230- /O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0071.000000T0000Z-140919T1230Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ EDDY- 236 AM MDT FRI SEP 19 2014 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 AM MDT/730 AM CDT/ FOR SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY... AT 230 AM MDT...LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED ONGOING HIGH WATER RESCUES IN SOUTHEAST EDDY COUNTY NEAR U.S. 285. THE DELAWARE RIVER AT THIS LOCATION WAS REPORTED TO BE 150 YARDS WIDE AND FLOWING FAST. A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MALAGA...OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF CARLSBAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...MALAGA AND SALT LAKE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. ACT QUICKLY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. && LAT...LON 3231 10438 3232 10372 3200 10373 3200 10467 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 8:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 9:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 12:43 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 4:05 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 6:14 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 6:52 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 8:06 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 15 hr |
| Sep 19, 8:06 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 13 hr |
| Sep 19, 8:20 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 9:10 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Lea | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 9:48 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 3:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 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.