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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 29, 2000Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 29, 2000, 12:38 AM MDT for Roosevelt 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 2000, 12:38 AM MDT (06:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2000, 3:15 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 124 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 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
124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 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 
WGUS55 KABQ 290653 COR
FFWABQ
NMC041-290915-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED ISSUANCE TIME EXPIRATION CODING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1247 AM MDT THU JUN 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 315 AM MDT

* AT 1243 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED  
  HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHEASTERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY.  MOVEMENT WAS       
  NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.  COMMUNITIES MOST LIKELY AFFECTED BY THIS     
  ACTIVITY ARE SOUTH AND EAST OF A CAUSEY TO MILNESAND LINE. 

ALTHOUGH THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE MOVED EAST INTO TEXAS RUNOFF OF 
EARLIER RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS 
PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING.   

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3374 10331 3362 10316 3421 10228 3447 10258

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.