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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 16, 2000Santa Fe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2000, 2:00 PM MDT for Santa Fe 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
Jul 16, 2000, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2000, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Santa Fe County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 76 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2000-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2000-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-251 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2307 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-34 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 162006
FFWABQ
NMC049-162200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
200 PM MDT SUN JUL 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWEST SANTA FE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE CERRO GRANDE BURN AREA IN 
  NORTHERN LOS ALAMOS COUNTY. THE GARCIA CANYON RAWS STATION 
  REPORTED 1.24 INCHES IN 45 MINUTES. SOME OF THE CANYONS IN THIS 
  AREA DRAIN INTO NORTHWEST SANTA FE COUNTY AND CROSS COUNTY HIGHWAY 
  57 AND STATE HIGHWAY 502 BEFORE REACHING THE RIO GRANDE. ALTHOUGH 
  DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS THE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN LOS ALAMOS 
  COUNTY IS FINALLY SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAKENING... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS 
  ALREADY FALLEN. RAGING TORRENTS OF WATER...POSSIBLY WALLS OF WATER 
  WILL RUSH DOWN THE CANYONS IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE BURNED AREA 
  AND INTO NODRTHWEST SANTA FE COUNTY.

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 12:55 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQLos Alamos3 hr
Jul 16, 1:15 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQLos Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval3 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.