Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 12, 1996, 7:25 AM MDT for Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 12 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 12, 1996, 7:25 AM MDT (13:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 1996, 7:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 12 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 13:25 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, 1.4 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
- 1071 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 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 121328 FFWABQ NMC005-027-130125- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 725 AM MDT THU SEP 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...WESTERN CHAVES COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 700 AM THE PUBLIC REPORTED THAT THE RIO HONDO WAS OUT OF ITS BANK AT PICACHO. THEY ESTIMATED A STAGE OF 30 FEET WITH THE FLOOD STATE OF 7 FEET. THIS WATER WILL MOVE DOWNSTREAM TO TWO RIVER RESERVOIR BY THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS ALONG THE RIO HONDO DOWNSTREAM OF PICACHO ALONG HIGHWAY 70 AND IN THE COMMINITY OF SUNSET SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATERS AND WATER OVER ROADWAYS. A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST 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.
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 12, 5:37 AM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
NMZ001>032-121900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 530 AM MDT THU SEP 12 1996 ...MORE RAIN ON THE WAY... GENEROUS AMOUNTS OF TROPICAL MOISTURE HAVE CONTINUED STREAMING NORTHWARD INTO NEW MEXICO DURING THE NIGHT. AT 530 AM SHOWERS AND A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS LINGERED ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO. NEW MEXICO CAN EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATER TODAY...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS LIKELY AGAIN. MANY AREAS WHICH ALREADY RECEIVED GOOD RAINS WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT CAN EXPECT ADDITIONAL RAINFALL TODAY AND TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE MUCH OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN FROM THE SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS SOUTHWARD...INCLUDING THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS. STREAMS AND ARROYOS MANY MILES DOWNSTREAM MAY BE RUNNING RAPIDLY OR EXPERIENCING RAPID RISES OF WATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL WATCHES OR WARNINGS MAY BE NECESSARY LATER TODAY AS THE WEATHER SITUATION DEVELOPS AND CONDITIONS CHANGE. SOME DRIER AIR MAY BEGIN TO SPREAD INTO NEW MEXICO FROM THE WEST ON FRIDAY...BUT EASTERN NEW MEXICO WILL CONTINUE TO BE WET. LONGER RANGE CHARTS SHOW DRIER WESTERLY WINDS REACHING THE ^EASTERN BORDER BY SUNDAY...THEREFORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DECREASE IN NUMBER STATEWIDE BY LATE IN THE WEEKEND. HIGH TEMPERATURES WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON VARIED FROM 87 DEGREES AT LORDSBURG TO A RAIN COOLED 58 DEGREES AT CLOUDCROFT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 8:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel, Torrance | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 9:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Sep 12, 1:50 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
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.