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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 3, 1997Mora County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 1997, 4:42 PM MDT for Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 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
Jul 3, 1997, 4:42 PM MDT (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 1997, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Mora County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 1997-07-03Temperature 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 km15 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 1997-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3197 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:26 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
NMZ003-009-015-023-040430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
426 PM MDT THU JUL 3 1997

...GUSTY WINDS INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...

A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHWARD DOWN THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO PLAINS
WILL PUSH WESTWARD INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THIS EVENING. AS THE
WINDS SURGE THROUGH THE PASSES IN THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN
CHAIN...GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY ALONG THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY FROM
AROUND SANTA FE SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE
VALLEY TO TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES.

EAST WINDS ARE LIKELY IN THE MIDDLE AND UPPER PORTIONS OF THE RIO
GRANDE BEGINNING THIS EVENING. SPEEDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL BE
COMMON WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH DOWNWIND OF MOUNTAIN PASSES. IN THE
SOUTHERN PART OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...WINDS WILL BECOME NORTH
LATER TONIGHT AND GUST ABOVE 25 MPH.

BOATERS FROM COCHITI LAKE SOUTHWARD THROUGH ELEPHANT BUTTE AND
CABALLO RESERVOIRS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF GUSTY
WINDS TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. WINDS WILL DIMINISH BY MIDDAY
FRIDAY.
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:30 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
NMZ003-009-015-023-040430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
426 PM MDT THU JUL 3 1997

...GUSTY WINDS INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...

A COLD FRONT MOVING SOUTHWARD DOWN THE EASTERN NEW MEXICO PLAINS
WILL PUSH WESTWARD INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THIS EVENING. AS THE
WINDS SURGE THROUGH THE PASSES IN THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN
CHAIN...GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY ALONG THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY FROM
AROUND SANTA FE SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE
VALLEY TO TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES.

EAST WINDS ARE LIKELY IN THE MIDDLE AND UPPER PORTIONS OF THE RIO
GRANDE BEGINNING THIS EVENING. SPEEDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WILL BE
COMMON WITH GUSTS AROUND 40 MPH DOWNWIND OF MOUNTAIN PASSES. IN THE
SOUTHERN PART OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...WINDS WILL BECOME NORTH
LATER TONIGHT AND GUST ABOVE 25 MPH.

BOATERS FROM COCHITI LAKE SOUTHWARD THROUGH ELEPHANT BUTTE AND
CABALLO RESERVOIRS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF GUSTY
WINDS TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. WINDS WILL DIMINISH BY MIDDAY
FRIDAY.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 3:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora62 min
Jul 3, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora63 min
Jul 3, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel63 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.