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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 6, 1999Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 1999, 12:23 AM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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
Aug 6, 1999, 12:23 AM MDT (06:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 1999, 2:50 AM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 259 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 1999-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 663 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 1999-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
663 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Aug 5, 7:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Roosevelt60 min
Aug 5, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry35 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.