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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 3, 1996Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 1996, 8:01 PM MDT for Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 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
Aug 3, 1996, 8:01 PM MDT (02:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1996, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:04 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 1996-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 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 1996-08-04The 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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 040155
FFWABQ
NMC043-040300-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
801 PM MDT SAT AUG 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN SANDOVAL COUNTY
 
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WERE REPORTED IN BERNALILLO WITH
WATER BEGINNING TO COLLECT ON THE STREETS. RADAR CONTINUES TO
SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE AREA FROM THE WEST
AND SOUTHWEST. WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL RAINS OVER THE NEXT
30 MINUTES TO ONE HOUR...FLOODING OF STREETS AND ARROYOS IS POSSIBLE
OVER SOUTHEASTERN SANDOVAL COUNTY AND ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA FROM
AROUND BERNALILLO TO PLACITAS AND ALONG I-25.

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, Aug 3, 2:35 PM MDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
NMZ005-032245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
242 PM MDT SAT AUG 3 1996

...THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EAST SLOPES OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTOS...

THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORMED OVER THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS ARE DRIFTING
SOUTHEASTWARD OUT OVER THE EAST SLOPES OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTOS.
RADAR INDICATES THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM AROUND LAS
VEGAS NORTH ALONG I-25 TO RATON. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST
NORTH OF LAS VEGAS AND THE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT REPORTED
HAIL ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS
INDICATED THAT SEVERAL REPORTS OF SMALL HAIL HAD BEEN RECEIVED IN THE
AREA JUST NORTH OF LAS VEGAS.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM AND DRIFT EASTWARD ACROSS THE
AREA THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. SINCE
THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE TRACKING TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 10-15 MPH
...THE S0HOWERS WILL NOT LINGER OVER AN AREA.

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Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1996Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.