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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 25, 1996San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 25, 1996, 6:20 PM MDT for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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, 6:20 PM MDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1996, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 260021
FFWABQ
NMC047-260250-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
620 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...SAN MIGUEL COUNTY
   ...NORTHWEST GUADALUPE COUNTY

AT 615 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG U.S. 84 8 MILES NORTH OF DILIA...OR 15
MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF LAS VEGAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10-15 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS LIKELY PRODUCED OVER 1.50 INCHES OF RAIN SINCE
530 PM. RUNOFF WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF ARROYOS...WASHES AND LOW
WATER AREAS THROUGH EARLY EVENING...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE GALLINAS
AND PECOS RIVER WATERSHEDS. RESIDENTS OF ANTON CHICO AND TECOLOTITO
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODING THROUGH EARLY EVENING.
 
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 25, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	60 min
Jul 25, 7:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	60 min
Jul 25, 8:04 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	46 min
Jul 26, 3:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	40 min
Jul 26, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	64 min
Jul 26, 4:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	56 min
Jul 26, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	48 min
Jul 26, 4:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	55 min
Jul 26, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	67 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.