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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 2, 2000Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 2000, 7:33 PM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 117 min. 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 2, 2000, 7:33 PM MDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2000, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Torrance County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 403 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2000-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 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
403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 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 030136
FFWABQ
NMC057-030330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
733 PM MDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 930 PM MDT

* AT 728 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  TORRENTIAL RAIN 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF ESTANCIA AND NORTH OF TAJIQUE
  ...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO ONE AND ONE-HALF
  INCHES PER HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE...
  4 MILES WEST OF ESTANCIA AT 740 PM MDT
  OVER WILLARD AT 820 PM MDT

BOTH LOCALIZED AND DISTANT HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FLOWS
IN ARROYOS AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

ARROYOS...STREAMS AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A
MATTER OF MINUTES. KNOW WHERE HIGHER GROUND IS LOCATED.

LAT...LON 3490 10606 3485 10627 3454 10618 3457 10593

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 6:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance63 min

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.