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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 10, 2015Lea County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2015, 2:17 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 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 10, 2015, 2:17 AM MDT (08:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2015, 6:15 AM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lea County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 277 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1324 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1235 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

945 
WGUS54 KMAF 100817
FFWMAF
NMC025-101215-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0049.150710T0817Z-150710T1215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
217 AM MDT FRI JUL 10 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND  HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...

* UNTIL 615 AM MDT
    
* AT 216 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 
  HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. WIDESPREAD AMOUNTS OF ONE TO 
  TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN. 

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
  LOVINGTON...TATUM...CAPROCK...CROSSROADS...GLADIOLA...MCDONALD AND
  TATUM AIRPORT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

&&

LAT...LON 3297 10306 3297 10376 3298 10376 3340 10377
      3340 10372 3357 10372 3357 10306

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 6:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Eddy	49 min
Jul 9, 6:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	63 min
Jul 9, 6:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Jul 9, 7:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	78 min
Jul 9, 7:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	40 min
Jul 9, 8:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	71 min
Jul 9, 11:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Lea	43 min
Jul 10, 12:27 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Lea	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.