Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 1990, 3:49 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, Santa Fe County, Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 1990, 3:49 PM MDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1990, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance 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 40 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 122154 FFWABQ NMC001-049-057-122345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 349 PM MDT SUN AUG 12 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE... IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...EASTERN BERNALILLO COUNTY...SOUTHERN SANTA FE COUNTY ...NORTHWESTERN TORRANCE COUNTY AFFECTED COMMUNITIES INCLUDE THE EAST SIDE OF ALBUQUERQUE... TIJERAS...CEDAR CREST...SANDIA PARK...ESCOBOSA...CHILILI... EDGEWOOD...MORIARTY...AND STANLEY... AT 345 PM MDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR OVER AND NEAR THE SANDIA AND NORTHERN MANZANO MOUNTAIN RANGES AND NEAR STANLEY NEW MEXICO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH AND WERE INCREASING IN INTENSITY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING ...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 12, 3:36 PM MDT, 13 minutes before
NMZALL-082345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 335 PM MDT SUN AUG 12 1990 WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER PARTS OF NEW MEXICO. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WERE NEAR SPRINGER AND CLINES CORNERS. UPPER AIR WINDS A LIGHT...SO THIS AFTERNOON`S THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING VERY SLOWLY. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND EVEN SOME HAIL. PEOPLE...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. LV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance | 86 min |
| Aug 12, 4:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 2 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.