Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 1997, 3:00 AM MDT for Harding 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
- Jun 8, 1997, 3:00 AM MDT (09:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1997, 6:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harding County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:04 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1327 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 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 080912 FFWABQ NMC021-081200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 300 AM MDT SUN JUN 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...HARDING COUNTY WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINS CONTINUED ACROSS PORTIONS OF EASTERN SAN MIGUEL AND HARDING COUNTIES EARLY THIS MORNING. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN WITHIN THE PAST HOUR FROM CONCHAS DAM EASTWARD TO ROY AND MOSQUERO...ALONG THE CANADIAN RIVER AND UTE CREEK WATERSHEDS. RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL AT RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR AS THE PRECIPITATION AREA SPREADS NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH SUNRISE. FLASH FLOODING OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS IS LIKELY ALONG STATE ROAD 39 NORTH OF LOGAN AND ALONG ROUTE 419 EAST OF TREMENTINA. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODING. 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 REACHT YOUR LOCATION FROM UPSTREAM RAIN AREAS. KJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 9:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 10:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 12:24 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 26 min |
| Jun 8, 12:58 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 57 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.