Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1998, 6:55 PM MDT for De Baca County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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
- Jul 30, 1998, 6:55 PM MDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1998, 8:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties De Baca County, NM, Quay County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 310056 FFWABQ NMC009-011-037-310255- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 655 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO NORTHERN DE BACA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 855 PM MDT * AT 650 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR GLENRIO TO NEAR HOUSE...MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.. * RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD WILL FLOOD LOW LYING AREA AND DIP ALONG ROADS AND ALSO CAUSE RAPID RISED IN ARROYOS AND WASHES. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...ARROYOS OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE HALF TO THREE-QUARTER INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 62 min |
| Jul 30, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 59 min |
| Jul 30, 6:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry | 2 hr |
| Jul 30, 7:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 102 min |
| Jul 30, 7:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 102 min |
| Jul 30, 8:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.