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Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 21, 1997McKinley County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 21, 1997, 5:33 PM MDT for McKinley County, New Mexico. It was in force for 57 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
Sep 21, 1997, 5:33 PM MDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired
Sep 21, 1997, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County McKinley County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-09-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-09-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1218 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 212338
FFWABQ
NMC031-220130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
533 PM MDT SUN SEP 21 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM AND FLASH FLOOD
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 
   ...WESTERN AND CENTRAL MCKINLEY COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFIED RAPIDLY OVER GALLUP...PRODUCING QUARTER
SIZE HAIL AT GALLUP AIRPORT JUST BEFORE 530 PM. MINOR STREET
FLOODING WAS JUST BEGINNING IN GALLUP. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE 15 TO
20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GALLUP. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 35 MPH.
 
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 QUzICKLY 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 21, 5:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMcKinley57 min
Sep 21, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRio Arriba, San Juan60 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.