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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 25, 1996Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 1996, 1:17 AM MDT for Chaves 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 25, 1996, 1:17 AM MDT (07:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1996, 4:15 AM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 271 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Local storm report, Jul 24, 9:48 PM MDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 6:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	65 min
Jul 24, 6:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	60 min
Jul 24, 6:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval, Santa Fe	65 min
Jul 24, 6:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Torrance	63 min
Jul 24, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Torrance	63 min
Jul 24, 7:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Torrance	65 min
Jul 24, 8:18 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Torrance	2 hr
Jul 24, 8:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro, Torrance	55 min
Jul 24, 9:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	60 min
Jul 24, 9:52 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance	63 min
Jul 24, 9:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance	63 min
Jul 24, 11:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Lincoln	50 min
Jul 25, 1:17 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr
Jul 25, 2:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Catron	60 min
Jul 25, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	60 min
Jul 25, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	64 min
Jul 25, 5:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	62 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1996 Every 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.