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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 29, 1998Santa Fe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 1998, 2:57 PM MDT for Santa Fe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 93 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 29, 1998, 2:57 PM MDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1998, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
93 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Santa Fe County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 1998-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 684 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 1998-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
684 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 292057
FFWABQ
NMC049-292230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
257 PM MDT WED JUL 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion60 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.