Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 1996, 5:56 PM MDT for Chaves County, Lincoln 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
- Sep 11, 1996, 5:56 PM MDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 1996, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chaves County, NM, Lincoln County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Special weather statement, Sep 11, 12:03 PM MDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-121200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 100 PM CDT WED SEP 11 1996 THE FOLLOWING OUTLOOK CONTAINS INFORMATION FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS BOURBON CHEROKEE CRAWFORD IN SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI BARRY DALLAS LACLEDE OREGON STONE BARTON DENT LAWRENCE OZARK TANEY BENTON DOUGLAS MARIES PHELPS TEXAS CAMDEN GREENE MCDONALD POLK VERNON CEDAR HICKORY MILLER PULASKI WEBSTER CHRISTIAN HOWELL MORGAN SHANNON WRIGHT DADE JASPER NEWTON ST CLAIR ...A FEW STRONG STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI THIS AFTERNOON... A COLD FRONT EXTENDING ACROSS NORTHERN KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI EARLY THIS AFTERNOON IS FORECAST TO ADVANCE SOUTHWARD THROUGH SOUTHERN MISSOURI TONIGHT. THE COMBINATION OF WARM AIR ADVANCING TOWARD THE FRONT AND AN INCREASE IN MOISTURE ALONG AND JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL RESULT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE FRONT. WHILE SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...SOME STRONG STORMS WITH SMALL HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS NORTH OF A PITTSBURG KANSAS TO LEBANON TO ROLLA LINE. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND SPOTTER GROUPS OVER CENTRAL MISSOURI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT SHOULD CONDITIONS WORSEN. RUNNELS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 4:46 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 4:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.