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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 28, 1998Catron County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 1998, 5:31 PM MDT for Catron 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
Aug 28, 1998, 5:31 PM MDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1998, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
89 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Catron County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 1998-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 741 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 1998-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
741 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 282333
FFWABQ
NMC003-290100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
531 PM MDT FRI AUG 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CATRON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 520 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG HIGHWAY 60 NEAR RED HILL...
  WITH LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT.

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE AND HAVE PRODUCED
  RAINFALL OF BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES DURING THE PAST 30 MINUTES.

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO CROSS BRIDGES...D,IPS...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
Aug 28, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCatron47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.