Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 1997, 5:19 PM MDT for Torrance 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
- Aug 4, 1997, 5:19 PM MDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1997, 7:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Torrance County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 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 042318 FFWABQ NMC057-050150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 519 PM MDT MON AUG 4 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 750 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...NORTHWESTERN TORRANCE COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE NEARLY STATIONARY OVER NORTHWESTERN TORRANCE COUNTY. RAINFALL OF OVER TWO INCHES IS LIKELY TO HAVE ACCUMULATED IN SOME LOCATIONS ESPECIALLY BETWEEN TORREON AND MORIARTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFE<LY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. REMEMBER THAT WATER MAY CONTINUE TO FLOW IN ARROYOS AND ACROSS LOW WATER CROSSINGS SEVERAL MILES FROM AND SEVERAL HOURS AFTER HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED.
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 4, 3:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
NMZ005-011-012-050130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 332 PM MDT MON AUG 4 1997 HEAVY RAINS THIS AFTERNOON BETWEEN GLORIETTA AND LAS VEGAS PRODUCED RAPID RISES IN ARROYOS AND STREAMS AS WELL AS THE PECOS RIVER. STORMS WERE STILL IN THE GENERAL AREA AT 325 PM. LOCATIONS DOWNSTREAM ALONG THE PECOS RIVER AS FAR AS GUADALUPE COUNTY COULD EXPERIENCE TEMPORARY RISES IN THE PECOS RIVER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EVENING. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN APPROACHING AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. REMEMBER THAT RAIN RUNOFF CAN POSE PROBLEMS EVEN AFTER RAIN HAS ENDED...AND CAN FLOW MANY MILES AND TRAVEL SEVERAL HOURS FROM ITS POINT OF ORIGIN. GDC
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 3:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
NMZ005-011-012-050130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 332 PM MDT MON AUG 4 1997 HEAVY RAINS THIS AFTERNOON BETWEEN GLORIETTA AND LAS VEGAS PRODUCED RAPID RISES IN ARROYOS AND STREAMS AS WELL AS THE PECOS RIVER. STORMS WERE STILL IN THE GENERAL AREA AT 325 PM. LOCATIONS DOWNSTREAM ALONG THE PECOS RIVER AS FAR AS GUADALUPE COUNTY COULD EXPERIENCE TEMPORARY RISES IN THE PECOS RIVER THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EVENING. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN APPROACHING AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. REMEMBER THAT RAIN RUNOFF CAN POSE PROBLEMS EVEN AFTER RAIN HAS ENDED...AND CAN FLOW MANY MILES AND TRAVEL SEVERAL HOURS FROM ITS POINT OF ORIGIN. GDC
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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.