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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 21, 1999Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 1999, 7:16 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 119 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
Jun 21, 1999, 7:16 PM MDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1999, 9:15 PM MDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 264 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 677 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1999-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 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
677 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 21, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves29 min
Jun 21, 8:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Lincoln32 min
Jun 21, 9:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt33 min
Jun 21, 9:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQRoosevelt3 hr
Jun 21, 10:54 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves96 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1999Every flash flood warning in 1999

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.