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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM

January 18, 1993Catron County, Grant County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jan 18, 1993, 7:15 PM MST for Catron County, Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 18, 1993, 7:15 PM MST (02:15 UTC)
Expired
Jan 18, 1993, 10:15 PM MST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Catron County, NM, Grant County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1993-01-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 1993-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 18, 10:10 PM MSTFlash Flood WarningABQCatron, Grant4 hr
Jan 19, 1:30 AM MSTFlash Flood WarningABQCatron, Grant, Hidalgo8 hr

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.