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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 23, 2000Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Oct 23, 2000, 1:14 PM MDT for Curry County, Roosevelt 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Oct 23, 2000, 1:14 PM MDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired: Oct 23, 2000, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Curry County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 775 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KABQ 231919
FFWABQ
NMC009-041-232115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
114 PM MDT MON OCT 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 315 PM MDT

* AT 1250 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS WIDESPREAD FLOODING
  IN PORTALES FROM HEAVY THUNDERSTORM RAINS. THESE RAINS WERE ALSO
  CAUSING STREET FLOODING IN CLOVIS.  ADDITIONAL RAINS ARE LIKELY 
  FROM THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
  
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. MA9NY
FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

LAT...LON 3469 10306 3409 10308 3411 10348 3468 10346

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 23, 6:36 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	54 min
Oct 23, 7:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	65 min
Oct 23, 7:51 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	114 min
Oct 23, 8:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, San Miguel	50 min
Oct 23, 10:55 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	65 min
Oct 23, 11:11 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	64 min
Oct 23, 12:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	61 min
Oct 23, 12:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	San Juan	27 min
Oct 23, 12:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	San Juan	31 min
Oct 23, 1:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	52 min
Oct 23, 3:10 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay and 3 more	3 hr
Oct 23, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	50 min

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.