Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2004, 8:17 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 16, 2004, 8:17 PM MDT (02:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2004, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Roosevelt County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1653 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2254 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KABQ 170218 FFWABQ NMC041-170300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 817 PM MDT WED JUN 16 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 900 PM MDT * AT 815 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN DORA AND MILNESAND...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF PORTALES. THE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING THE HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. OF PARTICULAR CONCERN WILL BE ALONG STATE ROAD 206 AND STATE ROAD 262 WHERE MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO FLASH FLOODING DUE TO EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. LAT...LON 3387 10354 3357 10349 3356 10305 3401 10304 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS75 KABQ 170243 FFSABQ NMC041-170330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 843 PM MDT WED JUN 16 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 900 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. STANDING WATER FROM VERY HEAVY RAINS EARLIER IN THE EVENING MAY BE ENCOUNTERED...PARTICULARLY IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...BUT THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING HAS ENDED. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT NIGHT TO TELL HOW MUCH WATER IS ON ROADS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FAST MOVING WATER OR WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. $$ KJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 6:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 119 min |
| Jun 16, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 68 min |
| Jun 16, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 56 min |
| Jun 17, 4:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 65 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.