Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Feb 20, 1993, 9:40 AM MST for Catron County, Grant County, New Mexico. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 1993, 9:40 AM MST (16:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 1993, 4:00 PM MST
- In force
- 6 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 12:00Z, 4.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1312 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 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 201740 FFWABQ NMC003-017-202300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1040 AM MDT SAT FEB 20 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE... IN SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO ...GRANT...SOUTHWEST CATRON... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO DURING THE PREDAWN HOURS AND PRODUCED RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 0.50 INCH AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS. GILA HOT SPRINGS REPORTED 0.81 INCH OVERNIGHT. SILVER CITY RECEIVED 0.40 INCH. REPORTS FROM CATRON AND GRANT COUNTIES INDICATE THAT THE GILA RIVER AND THE SAN FRANCISCO RIVER ...AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES ARE RISING AND THAT SOME FLOODING IS OCCURRING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DIMINISHED IN THE WARNING AREA HOWEVER RIVERS AND STREAMS IN THE WARNING AREAS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO RISE THROUGHOUT THE REST OF TODAY. REMEMBER...MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVR THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE ON FOOT. JBG
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, Feb 20, 5:20 AM MST, 4 hours 20 minutes before
NMZALL-201900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 520 AM MST SAT FEB 20 1993 MODERATE TO STONG WEST AND SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL SWEEP NEW MEXICO TODAY. THE WINDS ARE DUE TO A POWERFUL STORM AFFECTING THE WESTERN STATES. SUSTAINED WEST AND SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 35 TO 50 MPH SHOULD BE THE RULE ACROSS NEW MEXICO BY MIDDAY. SOME LOCALES HAVE EXPERIENCED SIGNIFICANT WIND SPEEDS SINCE MID NIGHT. GUSTS BETWEEN 30 AND 45 MPH HAVE BEEN CLOCKED AT CLAYTON...FARMINGTON...GALLUP...AND RUIDOSO SINCE 200 AM. BOATERS AND DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION ACROSS ALL OF NEW MEXICO FROM NOW UNTIL SUNSET.
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.