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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 1, 1998Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Oct 1, 1998, 9:07 PM MDT for Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 88 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
Oct 1, 1998, 9:07 PM MDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired
Oct 1, 1998, 10:35 PM MDT
In force
88 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Curry County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-10-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1998-10-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 020307
FFWABQ
NMC009-041-020435-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
907 PM MDT THU OCT 1 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  NORTHERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 1035 PM MDT

* AT 906 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN APPROACHING CURRY AND
  ROOSEVELT COUNTIES...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THESE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE APPROACHING AREAS IN CURRY
  AND ROOSEVELT COUNTIES WHICH HAVE ALREADY BEEN DRENCHED BY A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM EARLIER THIS EVENING. WATER FROM THE PREVIOUS STORM
  WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COMPLETELY DRAIN OFF BEFORE THIS NEXT LINE OF
  HEAVY SHOWERS APPROACHES THE AREA. FLOODING PROBLEMS WILL BE
  TEMPORARILY AGGRAVATED BY THE APPROACHING RAINS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTI"OUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT
QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

&

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, Oct 1, 4:43 PM MDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
443 PM MDT THU OCT 01 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0100 PM    MARQUEZ                   NM   1.25 INCH HAIL
10/01/98   CIBOLA

0244 PM    ALBUQUERQUE               NM   .75 INCH HAIL
10/01/98   BERNALILLO                     PEA AND DIME HAIL COVERING
                                          GROUND IN DOWNTOWN
                                          ALBUQUERQUE
Local storm report, Oct 1, 8:42 PM MDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
842 PM MDT THU OCT 01 1998

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0810 PM    CLOVIS                    NM   .88 INCH HAIL
10/01/98   CURRY                          OCCURRED BETWEEN 1930 AND
                                          2000 MDT. REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTER FROM CHANNEL 7 IN
                                          AMARILLO.

0830 PM    CLOVIS                    NM   FLOODING
10/01/98   CURRY                          1.03 INCHES OF RAIN
                                          BETWEEN 1930 AND 2000 MDT.
                                          CARS FLOATING IN STREETS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 1, 7:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt64 min
Oct 1, 8:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca64 min
Oct 1, 9:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt61 min
Oct 1, 9:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt64 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.