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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1999, 2:55 PM MDT for Bernalillo 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 8, 1999, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1999, 5:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bernalillo County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 492 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 8, 9:45 AM MDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 9:45 AM MDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 6:44 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 1:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 2:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 3:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 3:46 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Santa Fe, Torrance | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay | 76 min |
| Aug 8, 4:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 4:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 5:34 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.