Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 1997, 12:31 AM MDT for Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 min. 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 23, 1997, 12:31 AM MDT (06:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1997, 1:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- 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 06:33 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 908 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 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 230631 FFWABQ NMC027-005-230930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1231 AM MDT SAT AUG 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UNTIL 130 AM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...WESTERN CHAVES COUNTY AT 1225 AM MDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROSWELL IN CHAVES COUNTY AND BETWEEN ARABELA AND ENCINOSO IN LINCOLN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE WEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN DURING THE PAST HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 6:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 57 min |
| Aug 22, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 46 min |
| Aug 22, 8:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 59 min |
| Aug 22, 8:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 59 min |
| Aug 22, 9:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Valencia | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 9:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:23 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 67 min |
| Aug 22, 10:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 67 min |
| Aug 22, 11:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 63 min |
| Aug 22, 11:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 63 min |
| Aug 23, 12:31 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 59 min |
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.