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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 26, 1998McKinley County, San Juan County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 1998, 5:44 PM MDT for McKinley County, San Juan County, New Mexico. It was in force for 91 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, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1998, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
91 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties McKinley County, NM, San Juan County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 189 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 1998-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 231 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1998-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
231 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 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 262345
FFWABQ
NMC031-045-270115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MCKINLEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  SOUTHEASTERN SAN JUAN COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 540 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CHACO CANYON NATIONAL PARK
  INTO NORTHEASTERN MCKINLEY COUNTY... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
  AN OBSERVER AT CHACO CANYON ESTIMATED THAT ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS
  FALLEN SINCE 4 PM.

* ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF A HALF TO ONE INCH WILL CAUSE
  FLOODING OF ARROYOS...WASHES AND LOW LYING AREAS.

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.

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, 2:11 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQUnion89 min
Jul 26, 3:09 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQTorrance111 min
Jul 26, 4:00 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQQuay, San Miguel90 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.