Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1997, 6:39 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, Valencia County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 30, 1997, 6:39 PM MDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1997, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 310037 FFWABQ NMC001-061-310245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 639 PM MDT WED JUL 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...BERNALILLO COUNTY...VALENCIA COUNTY AT 630 PM RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE TRACKING OVER AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED NEARLY ONE INCH OF RAIN SINCE 430 PM. THIS RAIN WILL FALL ON SATURATED GROUND FURTHER AGGRAVATING THIS FLASH FLOOD SITUATION. HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY TIL AROUND 730 PM. BOTH LOCALIZED AND DISTANT HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FLOWS IN ARROYOS AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH THESE WATERS. WATER IN ARROYOS MAY TRAVEL MANY @MILES AND TAKE HOURS TO REACH YOUR LOCATION FROM UPSTREAM RAIN AREAS.
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, Jul 30, 4:44 PM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
NMZ009-302315 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 444 PM MDT WED JUL 30 1997 VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS THE ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF A HALF INCH TO ONE INCH IN LESS THAN 15 MINUTES. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF PEA SIZE HAIL HAVE ALSO BEEN RECEIVED. MOTORIST SHOULD DRIVE WITH EXTREME CAUTION AS WATER WILL BE FLOWING RAPIDLY IN STREETS. SOME LOW SPOTS AND INTERSECTION MAY BE FLOODED. WATER WILL RISE RAPIDLY IN ARROYOS...EVEN IF IT IS NOT RAINING IN YOUR AREA...SO KEEP CHILDREN AND PETS AWAY FROM ARROYOS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Santa Fe | 39 min |
| Jul 31, 12:08 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 12:47 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 3:58 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.