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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 20, 1996Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 1996, 4:18 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 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 20, 1996, 4:18 PM MDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1996, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 180 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-246 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 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 202218
FFWABQ
NMC041-210130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
418 PM MDT SAT JUL 20 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 
   ...ROOSEVELT COUNTY
 
AT 415 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF PORTALES...OR 5
MILES NORTHEAST OF ELIDA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING
RAINFALL AT RATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES PER HOUR...WITH
ESTIMATED AMOUNTS OF NEARLY TWO INCHES SINCE 330 PM.
 
RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF NORMALLY
DRY ARROYOS...WASHES AND LOW LYING AREAS. 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.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
KJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt60 min
Jul 19, 7:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQRoosevelt64 min
Jul 19, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt64 min
Jul 20, 3:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQGuadalupe, Lincoln60 min
Jul 20, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Lincoln60 min
Jul 20, 3:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt62 min
Jul 20, 4:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQColfax, Union68 min
Jul 20, 4:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union68 min
Jul 20, 4:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe2 hr
Jul 20, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe2 hr
Jul 20, 5:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQColfax, Harding2 hr
Jul 20, 5:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Harding2 hr

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.