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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 21, 2016Eddy County, New Mexico

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2016-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 94 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2016-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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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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

Areal Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2016Every areal flood warning in 2016

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.