Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 4:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval, Valencia | 75 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.