Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 13, 1996Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1996, 2:16 AM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1996, 2:16 AM MDT (08:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 3:15 AM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 264 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1047 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1047 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 130822
FFWABQ
NMC005-131115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
216 AM MDT THU JUN 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM MDT AND A FLASH FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST CHAVES COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF ROUTE 380
ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAPROCK. SATELLITE AND DOPPLER RADAR
ALSO INDICATE RAINFALLS TO ONE AND ONE-HALF INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITH
SOME THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ROSWELL TO NEAR CAPROCK.  STREET FLOODING
WAS REPORTED AT AROUND 1:30 AM IN ROSWELL.  THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING
SLOWLY A LITTLE SOUTH OF EAST.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HNEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 2:16 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves59 min
Jun 13, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves66 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.