Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2016, 2:10 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 hr. 2 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 30, 2016, 2:10 PM MDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2016, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 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), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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 30, 3:14 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 20 Sw Carlsbad, NM | LAST CHANCE ARROYO FLOODING RESULTING IN HIGHWAY 137 TO BE IMPASSIBLE. |
| Aug 30, 3:15 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 15 Sw Carlsbad, NM | DARK CANYON ARROYO IS FLOODING WITH 20-25 FOOT DEEP WATER. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
772
WGUS54 KMAF 302010
FFWMAF
NMC015-310000-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0049.160830T2010Z-160831T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
210 PM MDT TUE AUG 30 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 600 PM MDT
* AT 205 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED 20 TO 25 FEET OF WATER
RUNNING IN LAST CHANCE ARROYO AND OVER DARK CANYON ROAD
ABOVE CARLSBAD. THIS FLASH FLOOD WILL RUN INTO DARK CANYON
EVENTUALLY REACHING CARLSBAD.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CARLSBAD...LIVING DESERT STATE PARK...CARLSBAD NORTH...
AND CAVERN CITY AIR TERMINAL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
&&
LAT...LON 3233 10466 3234 10454 3237 10455 3238 10447
3241 10445 3246 10433 3244 10420 3237 10417
3230 10429 3221 10437 3215 10459 3204 10480
3215 10481 3217 10485 3223 10485
$$
70The 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, 12:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.