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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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.
- 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
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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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.