Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 1992, 6:55 PM MDT for Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1992, 6:55 PM MDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1992, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grant County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1980 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 070057 FFWABQ NMC017-070500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 655 PM MDT WED MAY 6 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE... IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO ...GRANT COUNTY AT 640 PM MDT THE SHERIFF OF IN SILVER CITY REPORTED THAT RIVERS IN THE CLIFF AND GILA AREA WERE RUNNING VERY HIGH AND IT WAS STILL RAININHARD. AT 630 PM MDT THE OBSERVER IN BUCKHORN REPORTED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN TODAY WITH A TWO DAY TOTAL OF 1.99 INCHES. AT 645 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF NEW MEXICO AND EXTEND INTO NORTHERN MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS GRANT COUNTY FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THUS THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR GRANT COUNTY UNTIL 11 PM MDT. 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 ST6REAM...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, May 6, 2:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
NMZALL-062330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 231 PM MDT WED MAY 6 1992 BANDS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW MEXICO. SOME OF THE SHOWERS PASSED THROUGH ALBUQUERQUE DURING EARLY AFTERNOON AND AT 2:30 PM OTHERS ARE APPROACHING THE CITY FROM THE SOUTH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. WATER MAY RISE IN SOME OF THE CITIES ARROYOS...RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED NOT TO CROSS ARROYOS WITH RUNNING WATER. ELSEWHERE ACROSS THE AREA...RADAR AND SATELLITE PHOTOS INDICATE THAT THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER THE WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS OF NEW MEXICO IN THE AREA FROM NEAR GALLUP AND GRANTS SOUTH TO NEAR RESERVE. THE UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST ARIZONA CONTINUES TO PUMP MOISTURE UP INTO THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND DESERT SOUTHWEST. THE LOW IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY FOR THE NEXT DAY OR SO WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE A THREAT OF SHOWERS ACROSS MUCH OF THE STATE.
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.