Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 1997, 1:38 AM MDT for Guadalupe County, Quay 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
- Aug 18, 1997, 1:38 AM MDT (07:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1997, 3:40 AM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Guadalupe County, NM, Quay County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:41 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 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3407 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 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 180737 FFWABQ NMC019-037-180940- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 138 AM MDT MON AUG 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 340 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...EASTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY ...WESTERN QUAY COUNTY AT 135 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST QUAY AND SOUTHEAST GUADALUPE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED FLASH FLOODING ACROSS NORTHERN DE BACA COUNTY AND DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED UPWARDS OF 2 INCHES OF RAIN WITHIN THE PAST HOUR. GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. &
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
Local storm report, Aug 18, 12:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
1235 AM MDT MON AUG 18 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1115 PM ROSWELL NM TORNADO
08/17/97 CHAVES *** 1 INJ ***
2 MOBILE HOMES
DESTROYED...HOME
DEMOLISHED...ROOF BLOWN
OFF...1 MINOR INJ.Local storm report, Aug 18, 12:36 AM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
1235 AM MDT MON AUG 18 1997
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1115 PM ROSWELL NM TORNADO
08/17/97 CHAVES *** 1 INJ ***
2 MOBILE HOMES
DESTROYED...HOME
DEMOLISHED...ROOF BLOWN
OFF...1 MINOR INJ.The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 10:50 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 70 min |
| Aug 17, 11:35 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 55 min |
| Aug 18, 12:00 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:23 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 12:23 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:30 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:21 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Quay | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 4:30 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.