Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 1990, 9:54 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 1990, 9:54 PM MDT (03:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1990, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KABQ 150358
FFWABQ
NMC027-150700-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
954 PM MDT TUE AUG 14 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM MDT
FOR PEOPLE...
IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
...SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY
...AFFEDTED COMMUNITIES INCLUDE PICACHO...HONDO...TINNIE...
SUNSET...AND ARABELA...
AT 945 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING
NORTH AND NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY...WESTERN
CHAVES COUNTY...AND WESTERN EDDY COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE
OVER THE WARNED AREA FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...PRODUCING
FLASH FLOODING NEAR SMALL STREAMS...HIGHWAY DIPS...AND NORMALLY
DRY ARROYOS.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.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, Aug 14, 9:18 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
NMZ012-013-151145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 915 PM MDT TUE AUG 14 1990 THREE INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT PICACHO NEW MEXICO BETWEEN 345 PM AND 845 PM...2.25 INCHES OF THIS FALLING BETWEEN 715 PM AND 845 PM. PICACHO IS ON THE RIO HONDO ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF RUIDOSO AND 40 MILES WEST OF ROSWELL. NO FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE PICACHO AREA BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY RAINS. END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.