Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2016, 5:37 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report 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 23, 2016, 5:37 PM MDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2016, 8:30 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 Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 197 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 23, 7:00 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | Nnw Whites City, NM | DARK CANYON ROAD/COUNTY ROAD 408 HAS BEEN CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. |
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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 742 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1007 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted.
855
WGUS54 KMAF 232337
FFWMAF
NMC015-240230-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0033.160823T2337Z-160824T0230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
537 PM MDT TUE AUG 23 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 830 PM MDT
* AT 534 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE
ALREADY FALLEN IN BLACK RIVER AND WALNUT CANYON DRAWS. FLASH
FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
LOVING...MALAGA...WHITES CITY AND CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
STAY AWAY OR BE SWEPT AWAY. RIVER BANKS AND CULVERTS CAN BECOME
UNSTABLE AND UNSAFE.
&&
LAT...LON 3219 10442 3221 10437 3238 10409 3220 10404
3200 10405 3200 10442
$$
70The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 12:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 1:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 40 min |
| Aug 23, 4:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 111 min |
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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.