Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 20, 2002, 5:50 AM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 100 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2002, 5:50 AM MDT (11:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2002, 7:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 100 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Curry County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1023 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KABQ 201150 FFWABQ NMC009-201330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 545 AM MDT TUE AUG 20 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 730 AM MDT * AT 545 AM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FLASH FLOODING JUST SOUTH OF CLOVIS. VERY HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED ON NWS RADAR BETWEEN CLOVIS AND THE CURRY ROOSEVELT COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT AROUND 15 MPH. HOURLY RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL APPROACH 2 INCHES. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. BE ESPECIALLY ALERT ALONG STATE ROAD 467...HIGHWAY 70 AND HIGHWAY 84/60. LAT...LON 3445 10333 3431 10341 3431 10304 3453 10305 $$ KJ
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KABQ 201215 FFSABQ NMC009-041-201330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 614 AM MDT TUE AUG 20 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS CONTINUE UNTIL 730 AM MDT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY AND FOR SOUTHEAST CURRY COUNTY... LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO REPORT THAT SEVERAL ROADS THROUGHOUT NORTHERN ROOSEVELT AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST CURRY COUNTIES ARE EITHER COMPLETELY FLOODED OR HAVE SUBSTANTIAL STANDING WATER. THIS INCLUDES STATE ROAD 114 BETWEEN ELIDA AND DORA...STATE ROAD 206 BETWEEN PORTALES AND DORA...AND SECTIONS OF HIGHWAY 70 BETWEEN CLOVIS AND PORTALES. AT 610 AM MDT...NWS RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE OVER NORTHEAST ROOSEVELT AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST CURRY COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINS HAVE ENDED ALONG AND WEST OF HIGHWAY 70...AND SHOULD END ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE REGION BEFORE 645 AM. FIVE INCHES OF RAIN WAS MEASURED BY A CO OP OBSERVER IN PORTALES...MOST OF WHICH FELL BETWEEN 300 AM AND 600 AM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...ARROYOS AND DITCHES...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS. $$ KJ
000 WGUS75 KABQ 201332 FFSABQ NMC009-041-201340- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 730 AM MDT TUE AUG 20 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS WHICH WERE IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 AM MDT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN ROOSEVELT AND SOUTHEAST CURRY COUNTIES HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT WAS QUICKLY DIMINISHING. THUS...ALL FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND HIGHWAYS AND HIGH WATER IN ARROYOS AND STREAMS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH MID MORNING. $$ KJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 5:26 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002
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.