Alert archive / New Mexico / Areal Flood Warnings in 2016
Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this areal flood warning at Aug 21, 2016, 8:46 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 9 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
- Aug 21, 2016, 8:46 PM MDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2016, 5:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 9 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 02:49 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 Aug 21, 5:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 5:55 PM MDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 12:17 PM MDT, 8 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 117 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2016 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-221830- 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- 117 PM CDT SUN AUG 21 2016 /1217 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WESTERN TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE PECOS RIVER...WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ARROYOS...DRAWS...LOW WATER CROSSINGS...AND OTHER AREAS SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH WATER. RIVER RISES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE RIO GRANDE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL INCREASE OVER WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ON MONDAY...WITH THE BEST CHANCES EXPECTED OVER THE EASTERN AND SOUTHERN PERMIAN BASIN...THE LOWER TRANS-PECOS REGION...AND HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY NEXT WEEK. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL PROVIDE THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. RIVER RISES ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE RIO GRANDE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR RIVER FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 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
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.