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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 30, 1999Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 1999, 5:08 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 112 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: Apr 30, 1999, 5:08 PM MDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 1999, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 112 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Guadalupe County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 302309
FFWABQ
NMC019-010100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
508 PM MDT FRI APR 30 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL AND EASTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 430 PM MDT... LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS
  REPORTED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING EXCESSIVE RAIN NORTH OF SUMNER
  LAKE THROUGH SANTA ROSA AND EAST TO NEWKIRK...MOVING NORTH TO
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO REDEVELOP OVER NORTHERN DE BACA AND
  SOUTHERN GUADALUPE COUNTY AND ARE MOVING NORTH OVER THE SAME AREA.
  RADAR AND SATELLITE ESTIMATES INDICATE UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVER
  THE PAST 2 TO 4 HOURS. HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER THE SAME
  LOCATION WITH AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT 2
  HOURS. STATE POLICE REPORTED WATER OVER STATE ROAD 91 FROM SANTA
  ROSA TO PUERTO DE LUNA AND OVER INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 40 NEAR MILE
  MARKER 252.

MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...ARROYOS OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.

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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	Colfax, Mora, Taos	3 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

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 1999 Every 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.