Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 8, 1997Harding County, New Mexico

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.

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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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 303 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1997-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 8:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca65 min
Jun 7, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln45 min
Jun 7, 10:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca49 min
Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe2 hr
Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves2 hr
Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe2 hr
Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves2 hr
Jun 7, 11:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay55 min
Jun 8, 12:24 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt26 min
Jun 8, 12:58 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay, Roosevelt57 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.