An area of showers and a few embedded thunderstorms repeatedly produced rainfall over much of Eddy County. Although rainfall was not particularly heavy, persistent, moderate rains led to flash flooding across the area.
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The episode as NWS MAF wrote it up.
An area of showers and a few embedded thunderstorms repeatedly produced rainfall over much of Eddy County. Although rainfall was not particularly heavy, persistent, moderate rains led to flash flooding across the area.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 9, 10:30 PM MST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1230 AM CDT THU JUL 10 2008
.AVIATION...
SHRA WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT ACROSS THE KCNM TERMINAL. TSRA/SHRA
CHANCES WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH THROUGHOUT THE DAY TODAY...WITH
ONLY 20 PERCENT CHANCES ACROSS KCNM AND KHOB DURING THE DAY. WITH
AMPLE MOISTURE STILL OVER THE AREA...EXPECT LOWERED CIGS NEAR
020-030 NEAR 12Z FOR MOST SITES...WHICH COULD LEAD TO OCCASIONAL
MVFR CONDITIONS. SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE AT 15KT GUSTING TO
NEAR 25KT. /13/
&&
PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 206 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008/
DISCUSSION...
PERSISTENT AREA OF PRECIP ACRS ERN NM PLAINS IN ASSOCN WITH MID
LEVEL SHEAR/THETA-E RIDGE AXIS/SFC BOUNDARY. BOUNDARY LOOKS TO BE
ORIENTED SW-NE ACRS ERN NM PLAINS AND WITH LOW LEVEL MASS CONVERGENCE
EXPECTED INVOF BOUNDARY EXPECT THAT THIS WILL REMAIN FAVORED AREA
OF PRECIP. MSTR LEVEL REMAIN HIGH WITH PW/S OVER 1.25 INCHES AND
WITH SLOW MOVEMENT OF CELLS HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO BE A
CONCERN. GOOD PART OF GDP MTNS/EDDY COUNTY PLAINS GOT SOAKED
OVERNIGHT AND WILL EXTEND AREA OF FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO INCLUDE GDP
MTNS. MODEL QPF INDICATES HEAVIEST RAIN WILL BE FAVORED A LITTLE
NW OF SE NM PLAINS AND TEND TO AGREE...BUT SE PLAINS STILL WORTH
HIGH END CHC CATEGORY POPS. FARTHER E LOWER THETA-E AIR IS
ADVECTING IN FROM THE E AND WILL HAVE QUICK DECREASE IN POPS FROM
NW TO SE. MID LEVEL HGHTS WILL BUILD NWWD THUR WHICH WILL HOLD
LOWER THETA-E AIR IN PLACE AND INCREASED TEMPS. WILL DECREASE POPS
ACRS SE NM/GDP MTNS THUR AS WELL. SIMILAR SITUATION ON FRI
WARMER/DRIER CNTRL PB AND E-S. STILL ENUF MSTR TO HOLD ISOLD POPS
ACRS SW-W. SAT/SUN FULLY DEVELOPED SUBTROPICAL RIDGE WILL BE VERY
NEAR IF NOT WITHIN CWFA AND WILL DECREASE AREA OF ISOLD POPS FURTHER
TO FAR W-NW AND REMOVE ALL POPS MON-WED. GFS HINTS AT NW FLOW
DEVELOPING MON-WED ACRS MUCH OF THE AREA WHICH WOULD WARRANT
MENTION OF POPS.
&&
.MAF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NM...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 AM MDT THURSDAY
FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...EDDY COUNTY PLAINS...GUADALUPE
MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY.
TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 AM MDT THURSDAY
FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS.
&&
13HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 227 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-101930- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS- NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-GAINES- DAWSON-BORDEN-SCURRY-ANDREWS-MARTIN-HOWARD-MITCHELL- VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS- LOVING-WINKLER-ECTOR-MIDLAND-GLASSCOCK-WARD-CRANE-UPTON-REAGAN- DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-MARFA PLATEAU- BIG BEND AREA-TERRELL-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS- 227 PM CDT WED JUL 9 2008 /127 PM MDT WED JUL 9 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND WEST TEXAS. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND INTO THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THROUGH TONIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL QUICKLY RUN OFF SATURATED GROUND RESULTING IN THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODING IN THOSE AREAS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AS WELL AS THE ADJACENT PLAINS IN EDDY COUNTY. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED IN NATURE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT /LOWER CASE/ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND 05
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter reported one foot of water flowing across New Mexico State Highway 401.
Six inches of water flowed across the intersection of Roosevelt street and New Mexico State Highway 285/180.
A trained spotter reported two feet of water running across the intersection of County Road 206 and U.S. Highway 82.
Heavy rainfall resulted in three feet of water flowing across County Road 401 southwest of Lakewood.
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