Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 2016, 10:44 AM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 2016, 10:44 AM MDT (16:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2016, 1:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 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 16:46 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 11:38 AM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 1 N Carlsbad, NM | SIGNIFICANT ONGOING STREET FLOODING. LEA STREET FLOODED CURB TO CURB 6 TO 12 INCHES DEEP AT SOME INTERSECTIONS. |
| Aug 21, 12:08 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 Ssw Carlsbad, NM | MAJOR FLOODING OF US HWY 62/180 ONGOING FROM THE CARLSBAD AIRPORT NORTH TO WALMART IN SOUTH CARLSBAD AT JUNCTION OF A CENTER ST. HWY IS FLOODED CURB TO CURB SIX INCHES TO A FOOT DEEP. |
| Aug 21, 1:35 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 14 Wsw Carlsbad, NM | A COOPERATIVE OBSERVER REPORTED ONE TO TWO FEET OF WATER FROM LAST CHANCE CREEK RUNNING OVER THE ROAD ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF THE CAVERN CITY AIR TERMINAL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
379
WGUS54 KMAF 211644
FFWMAF
NMC015-211945-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0028.160821T1644Z-160821T1945Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1044 AM MDT SUN AUG 21 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 145 PM MDT
* AT 1030 AM MDT...A TRAINED SPOTTER LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH OF
CARLSBAD REPORTED 6 INCHES OF WATER RUNNING ACROSS COUNTY ROAD 34.
AT 1039 AM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS
ALREADY FALLEN IN SOME LOCATIONS. SIMILAR AMOUNTS OF RAIN COULD
FALL OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CARLSBAD...AVALON...CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK...LIVING DESERT
STATE PARK...WHITES CITY...LAKEWOOD...BRANTLEY LAKE STATE PARK...
CARLSBAD NORTH...CAVERN CITY AIR TERMINAL...LAKE AVALON AND OTIS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3202 10446 3202 10474 3240 10448 3272 10437
3275 10408 3239 10406
$$
031 follow-up statement
154
WGUS74 KMAF 211745
FFSMAF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1145 AM MDT SUN AUG 21 2016
NMC015-211945-
/O.CON.KMAF.FF.W.0028.000000T0000Z-160821T1945Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
EDDY NM-
1145 AM MDT SUN AUG 21 2016
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 PM MDT FOR
CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY...
AT 1134 AM MDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED FLOODING IN
CARLSBAD...WITH 6 TO 12 INCHES OF WATER FLOWING OVER SOME ROADS. AT
1140 AM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL OF NEAR
ONE INCH PER HOUR OVER CARLSBAD...WHITES CITY AND AVALON.
THEREFORE...ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CARLSBAD...AVALON...CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK...
LIVING DESERT STATE PARK...WHITES CITY...LAKEWOOD...
BRANTLEY LAKE STATE PARK...CARLSBAD NORTH...
CAVERN CITY AIR TERMINAL...LAKE AVALON AND OTIS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3202 10446 3202 10474 3240 10448 3272 10437
3275 10408 3239 10406
$$
67The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 8:33 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 10:22 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 1:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 1:42 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.