Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1986
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Oct 6, 1986, 2:15 AM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 1986, 2:15 AM MDT (08:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 1986, 6:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, NM
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 5, 8:15 PM MDT, 6 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 815 PM MDT SUN OCT 5 1986 AT 730 PM MDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST OF DEMING NORTHWARD TO WEST OF ALBUQUERQUE. RADAR AND SATELLITE PICTURES INDICATED INDIVIDUAL CELLS MOVING NORTHEASTWARD WHILE THE LINE ITSELF WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. AN OFF-DUTY WEATHER OBSERVER REPORTED HAIL UP 1 INCH IN DIAMETER FROM A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NORTHEAST OF DEMING AT 715 PM. THIS LINE OF ACTIVITY HAS BEEN SET UP BY THE COMBINATION OF COOL AIR AT THE SURFACE PUSHING IN VIGOROUSLY THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS FROM THE NORTH- EAST AND A SHARP UPPER-LEVEL FEATURE ROTATING NORTHWARD FROM SOUTHERN ARIZONA. THE LINE...WITH ITS ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS BUT TO BE ENDED OR AT LEAST DIMINISHING BY MIDNIGHT. THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHAIL. AR
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.