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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 31, 1998Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 1998, 5:43 PM MDT for Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 87 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 31, 1998, 5:43 PM MDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1998, 7:10 PM MDT
In force
87 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 1998-08-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-08-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 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 312345
FFWABQ
NMC043-010110-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
543 PM MDT MON AUG 31 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SANDOVAL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 710 PM MDT

* AT 540 PM... RADAR AND OTHER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DATA
  INDICATED HEAVY RAIN 5 TO 10 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF JEMEZ
  SPRINGS ALONG AND WEST OF STATE ROAD 4...MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST.

* AREAS ALONG THE RIO GUADALUPE AND JEMEZ RIVER THROUGH THE
JEMEZ SPRINGS AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPID RISES AND RUNOFF FROM
THESE NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS.

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OvCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...ARROYOS OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.

KJ

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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.