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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 14, 1990Lincoln County, New Mexico

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1990-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 96 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1990-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 2:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQLincoln4 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.