Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1998, 7:48 PM MDT for Harding County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 102 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 30, 1998, 7:48 PM MDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1998, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 102 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harding County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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 310149 FFWABQ NMC019-021-047-059-310320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 748 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GUADALUPE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO SOUTHEASTERN HARDING COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 930 PM MDT * AT 745 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN FROM SEDAN IN UNION COUNTY TO SOUTHEASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY TO SOUTHERN GUADALUPE COUNTY. THIS LINE IS MOVING TO THE NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * RAINFALL OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD WILL CAUSE RAPID RISES IN ARROYOS AND WASHES AND PONDING ON STREETS AND ROADS. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPBS...ARROYOS OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE HALF INCH TO THREE-QUARTER INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.
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
Local storm report, Jul 30, 6:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
600 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM CLINES CORNERS NM .75 INCH HAIL
07/30/98 TORRANCE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN
AND STRONG WINDSLocal storm report, Jul 30, 6:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
607 PM MDT THU JUL 30 1998
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM GALLINAS NM FLOODING
07/30/98 SAN MIGUEL FLASH FLOODING AND SMALL
HAIL REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT
0515 PM LAS VEGAS NM FLOODING
07/30/98 SAN MIGUEL FLASH FLOODING. 2.5 INCHES
RAIN BTWEEN 1530 AND 1630
MDT.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 | De Baca, Quay | 2 hr |
| Jul 30, 6:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry | 2 hr |
| 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.