Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 1990, 3:49 PM MDT for Torrance County, Valencia County, New Mexico. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1990, 3:49 PM MDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1990, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Torrance County, NM, Valencia 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1271 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 222152 COR FFWABQ NMC057-061-222245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR TIME... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 349 PM MDT WED AUG 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE... IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...WEST CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY...VALENCIA COUNTY AT 345 PM MDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALBUQUERQUE THROUGH BELEN TO THE MANZANO MOUNTAINS IN TORRANCE COUNTY. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS 10 TO 15 MILES WIDE AND IS MOVING NORTH AT 5 TO 10 MPH. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
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 22, 2:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
NMC001-057-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 220 PM MDT WED AUG 22 1990 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH TORRANCE COUNTY AND EXTREME EASTERN BERNALILLO COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM MDT. SOME OF THE AFFECTED COMMUNITIES WILL BE ESCOBOSA...TIJERAS... CEDAR CREST...SANDIA PARK...EDGEWOOD...MORIARTY...MCINTOSH... ESTANCIA...MANZANO...PUNTA DE AGUA...MOUNTAINAIR...WILLARD... AND CEDARVALE. LOCAL RAINS BETWEEN A HALF INCH AND ONE-AND-ONE-HALF INCHES... PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL ACCOMPANY THE THUNDERSTORMS. RAPID RISES OF WATER LEVELS IN SMALL STREAMS AND ARROYOS WILL OCCUR UNTIL 400 PM. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BED ISSUED IF CONDITIONS WARRANT.
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 2:58 PM MDT, 51 minutes before
NMZ013-222200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROSWELL NM 258 PM MDT WED AUG 22 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF THE ROSWELL AIRPORT.. WEST TO THE MOUNTAIN CHAIN..THEN NORTHEAST TO ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH- WEST OF ROSWELL HAS DEVELOPED SINCE 200 MDT THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND POSSIcBLY HAIL. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. BATEMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 4:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Torrance, Valencia | 60 min |
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.