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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 31, 1996Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 1996, 3:20 AM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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 31, 1996, 3:20 AM MDT (09:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1996, 4:20 AM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 1996-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 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 1996-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 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
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-304 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3131 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 6:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel67 min
Aug 30, 6:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel51 min
Aug 30, 7:28 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Miguel62 min
Aug 30, 7:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel62 min
Aug 30, 7:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe65 min
Aug 30, 10:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Roosevelt64 min
Aug 30, 10:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry56 min
Aug 30, 11:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt61 min
Aug 30, 11:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry32 min
Aug 31, 12:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance52 min
Aug 31, 3:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance60 min

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.