Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 1999
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 1999, 10:31 AM MDT for Colfax County, Mora County, Taos 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, 10:31 AM MDT (16:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 1999, 1:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM, Taos County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 10:25 AM MDT, 6 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-010210- NEW MEXICO/NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1025 AM MDT FRI APR 30 1999 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN OVER THE ENTIRE AREA AND LARGE HAIL OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM CONTINUES TO ROTATE OVER THE SOUTHWEST US ALLOWING MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO. STORMS CONTINUE MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING. A RISK FOR LARGE HAIL ALSO EXISTS OVER THE EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WHERE THE JET STREAM AND UPPER LEVEL ENERGY WILL ENHANCE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION...WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT... FOR AREAS EAST AND INCLUDING TAOS COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH LINCOLN COUNTY. COUNTIES WHERE SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED... ...EASTERN NEW MEXICO... UNION HARDING QUAY CURRY ROOSEVELT COLFAX MORA SAN MIGUEL GUADALUPE DEBACA CHAVES ...CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... TORRANCE LINCOLN ...WESTERN AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO... TAOS THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO. FOR THE FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEE AFOS PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEE AFOS PRODUCT LBBSPSELP FCSTR JH
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 10:25 AM MDT, 6 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-010210- NEW MEXICO/NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1025 AM MDT FRI APR 30 1999 SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN OVER THE ENTIRE AREA AND LARGE HAIL OVER EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM CONTINUES TO ROTATE OVER THE SOUTHWEST US ALLOWING MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO. STORMS CONTINUE MOVE OVER THE SAME AREA PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODING. A RISK FOR LARGE HAIL ALSO EXISTS OVER THE EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WHERE THE JET STREAM AND UPPER LEVEL ENERGY WILL ENHANCE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION...WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT... FOR AREAS EAST AND INCLUDING TAOS COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH LINCOLN COUNTY. COUNTIES WHERE SPOTTERS MAY BE REQUIRED... ...EASTERN NEW MEXICO... UNION HARDING QUAY CURRY ROOSEVELT COLFAX MORA SAN MIGUEL GUADALUPE DEBACA CHAVES ...CENTRAL NEW MEXICO... TORRANCE LINCOLN ...WESTERN AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO... TAOS THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE NORTHERN TWO-THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO. FOR THE FAR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEE AFOS PRODUCT LBBSPSMAF. FOR THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEW MEXICO THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEE AFOS PRODUCT LBBSPSELP FCSTR JH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 8:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 9:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 1:24 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:24 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 4:26 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 8:54 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 10:31 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 11:50 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Taos | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 11:50 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 5:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 112 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.