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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 26, 1998Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 1998, 2:11 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 89 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 26, 1998, 2:11 PM MDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1998, 3:40 PM MDT
In force
89 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 12:00Z on 1998-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 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 12:00Z on 1998-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-227 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2216 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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 262012
FFWABQ
NMC059-262140-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
211 PM MDT SUN JUL 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 340 PM MDT

* AT AT 205 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR HAYDEN... MOVING
  EAST AT 10 MPH.

* RAINS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES DURING THE NEXT HOUR WILL CAUSE
WATER TO RISE RAPIDLY IN ARROYOS...WASHES AND OTHER LOW LYING
AREAS.  AN OBSERVER IN HAYDEN REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN.

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...ARROYOS OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 1:27 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQLincoln2 hr
Jul 26, 3:09 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQTorrance111 min
Jul 26, 4:00 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQQuay, San Miguel90 min
Jul 26, 5:44 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQMcKinley, San Juan91 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.