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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 5, 2000Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2000, 12:07 AM MDT for Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 113 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 5, 2000, 12:07 AM MDT (06:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2000, 2:00 AM MDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1450 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 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
1450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KABQ 050612
FFWABQ
NMC037-047-050800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1207 AM MDT MON JUN 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 200 AM MDT

* AT MIDNIGHT MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN 9 MILES NORTH OF TUCUMCARI...MOVING 
  SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE...
  NEAR TUCUMCARI AT 135 AM MDT

THREE TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN AN AREA 10 TO 15 MILES 
NORTH OF TUCUMCARI SINCE 900 PM MDT SUNDAY. MOST OF THE RUNOFF FROM 
THESE TORRENTIAL RAINS WILL FLOW DOWN THE CANADIAN RIVER INTO UTE 
LAKE.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

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

LAT...LON 3539 10371 3536 10391 3512 10388 
3508 10357           3538 10349

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves50 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.