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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 3, 2000Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2000, 5:17 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 118 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: Jul 3, 2000, 5:17 PM MDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2000, 7:15 PM MDT
In force: 118 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Curry County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 602 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KABQ 032326
FFWABQ
NMC009-040115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
517 PM MDT MON JUL 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CURRY AND NORTHERN ROOSEVELT COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 511 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED HEAVY RAIN NEAR CLOVIS...AND   
  CANNON AFB.  OTHER CELLS ARE LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR  
  RANCHVALE. THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX CONTINUES TO BUILD TO THE     
  SOUTHWEST AND THE CELLS ARE TRACKING TO THE NORTHEAST OVER THE
  SAME AREAS THAT REPORTED HEAVY RAINFALL EARLIER TODAY. RADAR       
  RAINFALL ESTIMATES 2.5 - 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY   
  60/84 BETWEEN CLOVIS AND ST. VRAIN.


DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. MANY
FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

WATER IN ARROYOS MAY TRAVEL MANY M9ILES AND TAKE HOURS TO REACH YOUR
LOCATION FROM UPSTREAM RAIN AREAS. REMAIN ALERT TO FLOODED ROAD
CROSSINGS EVEN HOURS LATER.

KMV

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 2:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	30 min
Jul 3, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	36 min
Jul 3, 3:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	52 min
Jul 3, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	60 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2000 Every 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.