Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at May 21, 1991, 3:13 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 1991, 3:13 PM MDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1991, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bernalillo County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1185 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 21, 1:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
NMZALL-212030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 135 PM MDT TUE MAY 21 1991 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA... AT 130 PM MDT...STRONG THUDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING OVER THE ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE EXTENDING SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO NOTED SOUTH OF TUCUMCARI...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL WERE ALSO NOTED OVER FARMINGTON. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE STATE AND WERE GENERALLY MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 21, 2:40 PM MDT, 33 minutes before
NMZALL-212030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 235 PM MDT TUE MAY 21 1991 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA UNTIL 315 PM... AT 230 PM MDT...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS RAIN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER ALL AREAS OF THE STATE EXCEPT THE SOUTHWEST VALLEYS. THUNDER- STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE 45 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF BELEN. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN THE ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SOUTHWEST OF TUCUMCARI...NORTH OF LAS CRUCES...SOUTH OF GRANTS AND EAST OF FARMINGTON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IN FAR WEST TEXAS...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WERE WEST A-ND SOUTHWEST OF EL PASO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IN COLORADO...THUNDERSTORMS WITH ISOLATED HEAVY RAIN WERE SOUTHWEST OF CORTEZ. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 3:31 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 89 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.