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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 24, 1996San Miguel County, Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 1996, 6:57 PM MDT for San Miguel County, Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 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 24, 1996, 6:57 PM MDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 1996, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties San Miguel County, NM, Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 1996-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 539 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 1996-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
539 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 1:22 PM MDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-250600-
SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO
120 PM MDT WED JUL 24 1996...CORRECTION SENT FOR DATE...

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NEW MEXICO:

BERNALILLO     GUADALUPE        RIO ARRIBA        SOCORRO
CATRON         HARDING          ROOSEVELT         TAOS
CHAVES         LINCOLN          SANDOVAL          TORRANCE
CIBOLA         LOS ALAMOS       SAN JUAN          QUAY
COLFAX         MCKINLEY         SAN MIGUEL        UNION
CURRY          MORA             SANTA FE          VALENCIA
DE BACA

SYNOPSIS:  THE AIRMASS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL PLAINS
OF NEW MEXICO REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. AT THE SAME TIME THE AIRMASS
DRIES FARTHER WEST INTO THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND MORE SO OVER THE
NORTHWEST. UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT MAY
ENHANCE THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL
SECTIONS OF THE STATE LATER TODAY.
SPOTTERj ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING GENERALLY IN THE AREA FROM THE COLORADO BORDER SOUTH TO
NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF I-40 AND EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval65 min
Jul 24, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel60 min
Jul 24, 6:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval, Santa Fe65 min
Jul 24, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel, Torrance63 min
Jul 24, 7:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Torrance65 min
Jul 24, 8:18 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo, Torrance2 hr
Jul 24, 8:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro, Torrance55 min
Jul 24, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, San Miguel60 min
Jul 24, 9:52 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQLincoln, Socorro, Torrance63 min
Jul 24, 9:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln, Socorro, Torrance63 min
Jul 24, 11:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Lincoln50 min
Jul 25, 1:17 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves3 hr
Jul 25, 1:17 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves3 hr
Jul 25, 2:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCatron60 min
Jul 25, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro60 min
Jul 25, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora64 min
Jul 25, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel62 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.