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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 10, 1996De Baca County, Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 1996, 3:28 AM MDT for De Baca County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1996, 3:28 AM MDT (09:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1996, 5:30 AM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties De Baca County, NM, Quay County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 242 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1996-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 390 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1996-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
390 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1913 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 10:08 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSanta Fe3 hr
Jul 9, 10:38 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Miguel3 hr
Jul 10, 3:28 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo2 hr
Jul 10, 3:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance59 min
Jul 10, 4:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel68 min
Jul 10, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance61 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.