Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 2003, 9:19 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 101 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
- Sep 6, 2003, 9:19 PM MDT (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2003, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 101 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 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 070320
FFWABQ
NMC009-070500-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
919 PM MDT SAT SEP 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 1100 PM MDT
* AT 918 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN
AROUND AND WEST OF MELROSE...WITH WATER OVER THE ROADS...INCLUDING
U.S. HIGHWAY 60 AND 84...AND HIGHWAY 268. THIS SLOW MOVING
THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE ACROSS WESTERN CURRY COUNTY THROUGH 1000
PM WITH RUNOFF FROM THE STORM CONTINUING THROUGH 100 PM MDT.
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. MANY FLASH
FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS.
LAT...LON 3434 10373 3460 10372 3460 10362 3462 10351
3462 10342 3436 10342
$$2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KABQ 070358 FFSABQ NMC009-070500- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 957 PM MDT SAT SEP 6 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR CURRY COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL WAS CONTINUING OVER THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED. WHILE THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL MOVE OUT OF WESTERN CURRY COUNTY SHORTLY AFTER 1000 PM...RUNOFF FROM THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 1100 PM...ESPECIALLY AROUND MELROSE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO TELL HOW MUCH WATER IS ON ROADS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FAST MOVING WATER OR WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. $$
000 WGUS75 KABQ 070503 FFSABQ NMC009-070515- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1100 PM MDT SAT SEP 6 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT FOR CURRY COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. 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.