Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 2003, 7:42 PM MDT for San Miguel 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
- May 31, 2003, 7:42 PM MDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2003, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County San Miguel County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -386 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KABQ 010143 FFWABQ NMC047-010345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 742 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 945 PM MDT * AT 740 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTH CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 31 MILES NORTHEAST OF SANTA ROSA. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE... OVER RURAL SOUTHERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3523 10444 3522 10420 3544 10421 3543 10445
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KABQ 010306 FFSABQ NMC047-010345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 857 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 945 PM MDT FOR SAN MIGUEL COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE LINGERING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS FROM TREMENTINA TO GARITA TO CONCHAS ALONG NEW MEXICO HIGHWAY 104. AT NIGHT IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FAST MOVING WATER OR WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.
000 WGUS75 KABQ 010312 FFSABQ NMC047-010345- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 910 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 945 PM MDT FOR SAN MIGUEL COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE LINGERING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING WILL CONTINUE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS FROM TREMENTINA TO GARITA TO CONCHAS ALONG NEW MEXICO HIGHWAY 104. AT NIGHT IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO TELL HOW MUCH WATER IS ON ROADS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FAST MOVING WATER OR WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH.
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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.