Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2016, 12:18 PM MDT for Eddy County, 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
- Aug 30, 2016, 12:18 PM MDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2016, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
359
WGUS54 KMAF 301818
FFWMAF
NMC015-025-302215-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0048.160830T1818Z-160830T2215Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1218 PM MDT TUE AUG 30 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WESTERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
EASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 415 PM MDT
* AT 1211 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN FALLING ALONG
HIGHWAY 82...HIGHWAY 62...AND STATE HIGHWAY 128 AND STATE HIGHWAY
31 IN EASTERN EDDY AND WESTERN LEA COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL
WILL INCREASE THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CARLSBAD...LOVING...MALAGA...AVALON...LIVING DESERT STATE PARK...
MALJAMAR...HALFWAY...LOCO HILLS...CARLSBAD NORTH...
CAVERN CITY AIR TERMINAL...LAKE AVALON...
LEA COUNTY ZIP FRANKLIN MEMORIAL AIRPORT AND OTIS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3323 10342 3272 10362 3204 10371 3202 10386
3202 10436 3296 10430 3297 10377 3327 10376
$$
12The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 8:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 8:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 5:52 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 113 min |
| Aug 30, 7:46 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 4 hr |
| Aug 30, 8:10 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 4 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 hr |
| Aug 30, 4:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 3 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.