Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2017
Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 2017, 5:42 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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 25, 2017, 5:42 PM MDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2017, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 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), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 25, 6:20 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 2 Nw Carlsbad, NM | FLOWING WATER AT LEAST A FOOT DEEP REPORTED AT PATE AND BLODGETT. ALSO REPORTS OF MULTIPLE ROADS FLOODED TOWARD THE CENTER OF CARLSBAD. |
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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
441
WGUS54 KMAF 252342
FFWMAF
NMC015-260145-
/O.NEW.KMAF.FF.W.0032.170825T2342Z-170826T0145Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
542 PM MDT FRI AUG 25 2017
The National Weather Service in Midland has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Southeastern Eddy County in southeastern New Mexico...
* Until 745 PM MDT
* At 539 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated showers and thunderstorms
producing heavy rain across the warned area. Radar estimates up to
one inch of rain has already fallen just on the outskirts of
Carlsbad.
* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Carlsbad, Living Desert State Park, Carlsbad North, Otis 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 3259 10388 3201 10383 3201 10417 3214 10436
3259 10434
$$
49The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:19 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 116 min |
| Aug 25, 2:44 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Lea | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 37 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.