Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 1990, 3:44 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1990, 3:44 PM MDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1990, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colfax 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 042145 FFWABQ NMC007-042345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 344 PM MDT SAT AUG 4 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE... IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...COLFAX COUNTY FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED AT SPRINGER NEW MEXICO AT 330 PM MDT. THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MORE FLASH FLOODING WERE OVER INTERSTATE 25 FROM SPRINGER TO RATON PASS AS WELL AS OVER THE EASTERN FOOTHILLS OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTO RANGE IN COLFAX COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOW LITTLE MOVEMNT AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR. RESIDENTS OF SPRINGER...MAXWELL...RATON...CIMARRON...AND THE PHILMONT SCOUT RANCH SHOULD MOVE AWAY FROM AREAS PRONE TO FLASH FLOODING. 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 4, 2:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
NMZALL-042300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 230 PM MDT SAT AUG 4 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAINS OVER THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE MOUNTAINS..THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND THE SOUTHEASTERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON. THE AIRMASS OVER THE STATE IS VERY MOIST AND WITH WINDS ALOFT ARE LIGHT. SINCE THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE RATHER SLOWLY THEY COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND RAPID FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS.. ESPICALLY ARROYOS AND UNDERPASSES. DURING THE PAST HOUR...AN OBSERVER NEAR MENAUL AND TRAMWAY REPORTED A HALF INCH OF RAIN IN ABOUT 45 MINUTES WHILE IN THE FOUR HILLS AREA 0.30 INCHES HAD FALLEN IN ABOUT 25 MINUTES. THE ARROYOS IN THE FOUR HILLS AREA WERE REPORTED TO FLOWING RAPIDLY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN PLAINS WERE ALSO PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS IN THE HOBBS AREA. PERSONS TRAVELING IN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO WEATHER CONDITIONS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS ROADWAYS AND NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM OR ARROYOS...EVEN A SMALL ONE... ON FOOT. EBM
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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.