Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 22, 1990, 4:50 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 1990, 4:50 PM MDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1990, 7:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bernalillo 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 6 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1186 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 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 222256 FFWABQ NMC001-230200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 450 PM MDT SAT SEP 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE... IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...BERNALILLO COUNTY PORTIONS OF THE NORTHEAST HEIGHTS RECEIVED BETWEEN THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH AND ONE AND A THIRD INCHES OR RAIN THIS AFTERNOON. RADAR AT 43PM MDT SHOWED AN AREAOF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTH OF BERNALILLO COUNTY...WITH SOME AREA OF HEAVY RAINS. THESES STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH AT 10 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS BERNALILLO COUN DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. 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...LOW SPOTS OR ARROYOS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM OR ARROYOS...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, Sep 22, 2:33 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
NMZ007-222330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 230 PM MDT SAT SEP 22 1990 ...SCATTERED SHOWERS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS ARE MOVING ACROSS THE CITY WITH MODERATE AMOUNTS OF RAIN REPORTED IN THE FAR EAST HEIGHTS. RUNOFF FROM THESE SHOWERS MAY CAUSE WATER LEVEL IN ARROYOS AND DRAINAGES TO RISE RAPIDLY. STAY OUT AND AWAY FROM THE ARROYOS. AT MID AFTERNOON RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS TO THE SOUTH OF THE CITY. WITH THE NORTHWARD MOVEMENT...THERE MAY BE REPEAT PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. PERSONS PLANNING ON ATTENDING HOMECOMING ACTIVITIES AND THE FOOTBALL GAME THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE PREPARED TO WEATHER THE SHOWERY CONDITIONS.
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.