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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 24, 1989Grant County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1989, 5:10 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 80 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 24, 1989, 5:10 PM MDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1989, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
80 min
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 12:00Z, 11.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 1989-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 1989-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 242308
FFWABQ
NMC017-250030-

BULLETIN...EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ALBUQUERQUE NM
510 PM MDT MON JUL 24 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN
NEW MEXICO...

SOUTHERN GRANT...

AT 455 PM A WEATHER OBSERVER IN WHITE SIGNAL...SOUTHWEST OF SILVER CITY
...REPORTED 2.22 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN 45 MINUTES. THE THUNDER-
STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE SOUTH. IT ALSO PRODUCED HAIL AND
STRONG WINDS AS IT MOVED THROUGH WHITE SIGNAL.

PEOPLE IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF GRANT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO
SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FAST RISING WATER IN ARROYOS AND
NORMALLY DRY STREAM BEDS THIS AFTERNOON.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS ACTUALLY
BEEN REPORTED..SO TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER..
MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS RESULT FROM MOTORISTS DRIVIN!G INTO WATER-COVERED
CROSSINGS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH...STAY AWAY FROM ARROYOS.

MJF

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, Jul 24, 1:54 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  ALBUQUERQUE NM
153 PM MDT MON JUL 24 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...DEVELOPING IN ALBUQUERQUE
   METRO AREA...

ONCE AGAIN THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN HAVE DEVELOPED NEAR THE
MOUNTAINS IN EASTERN ALBUQUERQUE.  A REPORT OF 1.50 INCH OF RAIN IN 40
MINUTES WAS RECEIVED FROM THE SANDIA HEIGHTS AREA AT ABOUT 120 PM MDT.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE
SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE ALBUQUERQUE AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTER-
NOON AND INTO TONIGHT.

PEOPLE IN THE ALBUQUERQUE AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF
FAST RISING AND FOR INCREASED FLOW OF WATER IN ARROYS AND DRAINAGE
CHANNELS IN THE ALBUQUERQUE AREA...ALSO TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME FLOOD-
ING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS AND STREETS...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

PEOPLE SHOULD AVOID ARROYOS AND DRAINAGE CHANNELS AND SHOULD NOT DRIVE
INTO RUNNING WATER.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 4:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval, Valencia75 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989

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.