Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1993, 1:30 AM MST for Catron County, Grant County, Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 1993, 1:30 AM MST (08:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 1993, 9:00 AM MST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catron County, NM, Grant County, NM, Hidalgo County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 190827 FFWABQ NMC017-023-003-191600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 130 AM MST TUE JAN 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM MST FOR PEOPLE IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO ...GRANT COUNTY...NORTHERN HIDALGO COUNTY AND SOUTHERN CATRON COUNTY HEAVY RAINS HAVE CONTINUED TO FALL OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO DURING THE NIGHT. AT 100 AM MST THE GRANT COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE IN SILVER CITY REPORTED SEVERAL ROCK AND MUD SLIDES COVERED PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 180 TO THE WEST OF SILVER CITY. WATER WAS REPORTED TO BE ON THE IRON BRIDGE OVER THE GILA RIVER NEAR THE TOWNS OF CLIFF AND GILA. FLOODING WAS ALSO BEING REPORTED ALONG THE MIMBRES RIVER IN EASTERN GRANT COUNTY. THE HEAVY RAIN HAD TURNED TO SNOW IN THE SILVER CITY AREA BY 100 AM AND PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO TURN TO SHOWERS BEFORE SUNRISE. NEVERTHELESS...RAIN THAT HAD ALREADY FALLEN WILL KEEP STREAMS AND RIVERS IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO SWOLLEN THROUGH MID MORNING AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR GRANT...SOUTHERN CATRON AND NORTHERN HIDALGO COUNTIES UNTIL 900 AM MST. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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. END
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, Jan 18, 9:28 PM MST, 4 hours 2 minutes before
NMZ001-002-003-004-005-006-008-010-012-191200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 930 PM MST MON JAN 18 1993 ...SNOW AND WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES MOUNTAINS AND NORTH TONIGHT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS TONIGHT... ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR NORTHEAST QUARTER TONIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY... AN INTENSE UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA WAS CENTERED NEAR LOS ANGELES THIS EVENING AND WILL MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS MUCH OF NEW MEXICO ON TUESDAY. THIS WILL BRING A VARIETY OF WEATHER TO NEW MEXICO TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. SNOW ADVISORIES REMAIN IN EFFECT THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT FOR THE NORTHWEST PLATEAU...THE NORTHCENTRAL MOUNTAINS...THE UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY...THE NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS...THE WESTCENTRAL MOUNTAINS... THE SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS AND CENTRAL HIGHLANDS AND THE SOUTHCENTRAL MOUNTAINS. LIGHT RAIN OR SNOW HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS WESTCENTRAL AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE THIS EVENING. A LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION EXTENDED INTO EASTERN ARIZONA AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE STATE DURING THE NIGHT. RAIN/SNOW LINE REMAINS RELATIVELY HIGH BUT WILL LOWER DURING THE NIGHT WITH RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW ABOVE 6500 FEET. SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF TWO TO FIVE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE MOST MOUNTAIN SECTIONS BY MORNING WITH SKI AREAS OF THE NORTH POSSIBLY RECEIVING HEAVIER AMOUNTS. IN ADDITION ONE TO THREE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE NORTHWEST PLATEAU AND UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHEAST PLAINS TONIGHT WITH DENSE FOG AND FREEZING RAIN OR DRIZZLE CHANGING TO SNOW BY MORNING. DENSE FOG DEVELOPED OVER THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE STATE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH VISIBILITIES OCCASIONALLY REDUCED TO NEAR ZERO. THUS A DENSE FOG ADVISORY HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS AND THE EASTCENTRAL PLAINS THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS INCREASED OVER THE SOUTHWEST DURING THE EVENING. AT 900 PM THE SILVER CITY SHERIFF REPORTED HEAVY RAINS AND MASSIVE MUD SLIDES IN THE AREA. SOME RAINFALL REPORTS FROM LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING INCLUDED 1.31 INCHES AT GLENWOOD... 0.67 AT FAYWOOD...AND ABOUT 0.50 AT SILVER CITY AND RED ROCK. WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL...THE POTENTIAL FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER WILL CONTINUE OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE NIGHT AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. THE UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS THE STA*TE ON TUESDAY WITH CONDITIONS IMPROVING IN THE WEST THROUGH THE DAY AND ACROSS THE EAST SIDE OF THE STATE BY TUESDAY NIGHT. MUCH IMPROVED WEATHER IS IN THE OUTLOOK FOR THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 7:15 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Catron, Grant | 3 hr |
| Jan 18, 10:10 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Catron, Grant | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.