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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 19, 2002Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2002, 6:53 PM MDT for Socorro County, New Mexico. It was in force for 67 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
Jul 19, 2002, 6:53 PM MDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2002, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 2002-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2002-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-231 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 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 200053
FFWABQ
NMC053-200200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
648 PM MDT FRI JUL 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SOCORRO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 641 PM MDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING ACROSS 
  SOCORRO COUNTY WHICH INCLUDES STATE HIGHWAY 304. TWO TO THREE INCHES
  HAVE ALREADY FALLEN BASED ON RADAR ESTIMATES OVER THE AREA        
  PRIMARILY ALONG AND JUST TO THE EAST OF INTERSTATE 25. THE CLUSTER
  OF STORMS WHICH PROVIDED THE HEAVY RAIN ARE DIMINISHING BUT STEADY
  LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WITH SOME EMBEDDED HEAVIER RAIN WILL REMAIN 
  THROUGH 730 PM.

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

LAT...LON 3409 10701 3396 10686 3415 10660 3430 10680

JBW

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.