Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002

Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 11, 2002Catron County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2002, 1:45 PM MDT for Catron 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 11, 2002, 1:45 PM MDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2002, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Catron County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 233 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: 290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1073 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KABQ 111945
FFWABQ
NMC003-112200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
145 PM MDT WED SEP 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 138 PM MDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED WATER COVERING PORTIONS
  OF STATE ROAD 159 NORTHEAST OF GLENWOOD.  OTHER FLASH FLOODING WAS
  LIKELY OCCURRING FARTHER EAST NEAR AND NORTH OF THE GILA CLIFF   
  DWELLINGS NATIONAL MONUMENT.  OF PARTICULAR CONCERN WILL BE AREAS 
  IN THE GILA WILDERNESS AND MIDDLE FORK OF THE GILA RIVER WHICH MAY 
  EXPERIENCE RAPID RISES. MANY RURAL AND FOREST SERVICE ROADS MAY BE 
  INUNDATED THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST CATRON COUNTY.

DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. MANY FLASH
FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

DO NOT CAMP ALONG STREAMS AND RIVERS. REMAIN ALERT WHEN HIKING IN
STEEP...NARROW CANYONS.

LAT...LON 3365 10802 3321 10801 3322 10874 3364 10874

$$

KJ

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS75 KABQ 112106
FFSABQ
NMC003-112200-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
306 PM MDT WED SEP 11 2002

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR SOUTHERN
   CATRON COUNTY...

AT 300 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT 
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL HAD MOVED EAST OF THE WARNED
AREA.  HOWEVER...FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND ARROYOS...POOR
DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS MAY STILL BE ENCOUNTERED OVER SOUTHEAST 
CATRON COUNTY. 

$$

KJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 11, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Catron	37 min
Sep 11, 5:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Catron	27 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.