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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 23, 20009 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Oct 23, 2000, 3:10 PM MDT for 9 counties in 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: Oct 23, 2000, 3:10 PM MDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Oct 23, 2000, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KABQ 232113
FFWABQ
NMC005-009-011-019-021-037-041-047-059-240000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  EASTERN DE BACA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  NORTHEASTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  NORTHERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  EASTERN HARDING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
  EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
  SOUTHEASTERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
  EXTREME NORTHEASTERN CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 310 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  HEAVY RAINS CONTINUING OVER MUCH OF EASTCENTRAL NEW MEXICO. THE
  AREAS OF HEAVIEST RAINS IN THE LAST HOUR WERE NOTED FROM MELROSE
  TO GLENRIO...DORA TO CLOVIS...AND FROM NORTH OF LOGAN TO SEDAN.  
  ADDITIONAL RAINS ARE EXPECTED THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AS 
  THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TRACK NORTH OVER THE AREA.

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

LAT...LON 3393 10339 3400 10308 3668 10308 3552 10420
          3466 10442 3408 10430

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, 1:14 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	2 hr
Oct 23, 1:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	52 min
Oct 23, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	50 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.