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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2004, 4:12 PM MDT for Colfax 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
- Jul 21, 2004, 4:12 PM MDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2004, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Colfax County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 269 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2178 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 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 212212 FFWABQ NMC007-220015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 412 PM MDT WED JUL 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 408 PM MDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN AND NEAR SPRINGER. PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 56 IN SPRINGER HAS BEEN CLOSED. SEVERAL SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN THROUGHOUT EASTERN COLFAX COUNTY THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF MAXWELL...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPRINGER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. MOTORISTS ALONG INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN RATON AND SPRINGER SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR FLASH FLOODING. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE ABBOTT AND FARLEY DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3689 10442 3623 10478 3624 10403 3685 10401 $$ KJ
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS75 KABQ 212311 FFSABQ NMC007-220015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 508 PM MDT WED JUL 21 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN COLFAX COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 615 PM MDT... AT 505 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS EASTERN COLFAX COUNTY...MAINLY BETWEEN RATON AND DES MOINES...AND OVER THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE COUNTY. FARTHER SOUTH...HEAVY RAINS NEAR SPRINGER HAVE DIMINISHED BUT RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINS EARLIER IN THE AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE TO RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING IN AND AROUND THE SPRINGER AREA THROUGH AT LEAST 600 PM. ADDITIONAL LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWER ACTIVITY CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE MAXWELL AND SPRINGER AREAS INTO THE EARLY PART OF THE EVENING. $$ KJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 6:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry | 80 min |
| Jul 20, 7:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 8:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Jul 20, 10:15 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 90 min |
| Jul 21, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Torrance | 60 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.