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Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 7:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 3:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 62 min |
| Jul 20, 4:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 68 min |
| Jul 20, 4:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 68 min |
| Jul 20, 4:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 2 hr |
| Jul 20, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 2 hr |
| Jul 20, 5:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Harding | 2 hr |
| Jul 20, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Harding | 2 hr |
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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.