Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003

Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 11, 2003Santa Fe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2003, 5:05 PM MDT for Santa Fe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 55 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 11, 2003, 5:05 PM MDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2003, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Santa Fe County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -8 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 112304
FFWABQ
NMC049-120000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
505 PM MDT MON AUG 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL SANTA FE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 457 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLORIETA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES       
  SOUTHEAST OF SANTA FE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. RADAR           
  ESTIMATES OF GREATER THAN 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN JUST         
  NORTH OF INTERSTATE 25 NEAR CANONCITO.

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

LAT...LON 3555 10575 3567 10583 3559 10595 3547 10589
$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS75 KABQ 112346
FFSABQ
NMC049-120000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
546 PM MDT MON AUG 11 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM MDT FOR SANTA FE 
COUNTY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS
ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT WAS
DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT FOR 
FLASH FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 600 PM.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
STREAMS AND ARROYOS...POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 8:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	50 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2003 Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.