Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2016
Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2016, 4:16 PM MDT for Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 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, 4:16 PM MDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2016, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 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), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 170 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.
859
WGUS54 KMAF 302216
FFWMAF
NMC015-025-310115-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0050.160830T2216Z-160831T0115Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
416 PM MDT TUE AUG 30 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
EASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 715 PM MDT
* AT 412 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS EASTERN EDDY COUNTY...AND MUCH OF LEA COUNTY.
ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN ALONG THE EDDY AND
LEA COUNTY LINE...AND BETWEEN HOBBS AND GLADIOLA AND HOBBS AND
LOVINGTON SINCE 2 PM MDT. ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL INCREASE THE FLASH
FLOOD THREAT.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
HOBBS...CARLSBAD...LOVINGTON...EUNICE...JAL...TATUM...LOVING...
CROSSROADS...MALAGA...MCDONALD...KNOWLES...CAPROCK...JAL AIRPORT...
EUNICE AIRPORT...AVALON...BUCKEYE...OIL CENTER...MONUMENT...
CARLSBAD NORTH AND MALJAMAR.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...FARMLAND...AND OTHER LOW LYING
SPOTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3200 10307 3200 10435 3296 10429 3297 10375
3340 10376 3340 10371 3357 10371 3357 10305
$$
67The 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, 2:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.