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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 22, 1996Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1996, 2:34 PM MDT for Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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
Jul 22, 1996, 2:34 PM MDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 1996, 3:35 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 258 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 1996-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 112 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 1996-07-22The 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
112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 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 22, 2:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union61 min
Jul 22, 2:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora60 min
Jul 22, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding65 min
Jul 22, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion53 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.