Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 30, 1999De Baca County, Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 1999, 1:24 AM MDT for De Baca County, Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 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
Apr 30, 1999, 1:24 AM MDT (07:24 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1999, 4:20 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 274 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 1999-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1999-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 200 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
484 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Apr 29, 10:18 PM MDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
1018 PM MDT THU APR 29 1999

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

0850 PM    LAKE ARTHUR               NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/29/99   CHAVES                         GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY ROSWELL
                                          SHERIFF NEAR LAKE ARHTUR
                                          AT 850 PM MDT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 8:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves47 min
Apr 29, 9:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves42 min
Apr 30, 1:24 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves3 hr
Apr 30, 4:26 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe, Quay3 hr
Apr 30, 8:54 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves2 hr
Apr 30, 10:31 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQColfax, Mora, Taos3 hr
Apr 30, 10:31 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel3 hr
Apr 30, 11:50 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQColfax, Mora, Taos3 hr
Apr 30, 11:50 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel3 hr
Apr 30, 5:08 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQGuadalupe112 min

Nearby

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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.