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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2004, 2:55 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
- Aug 4, 2004, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2004, 5:00 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 radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1903 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 042056
FFWABQ
NMC047-042300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
255 PM MDT WED AUG 4 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WESTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 500 PM MDT
* AT 245 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
HEAVY RAIN OVER RIBERA...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAS
VEGAS...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.
* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE...
7 MILES EAST OF UPPER COLONIAS AT 430 PM MDT
6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EL PORVENIR AT 500 PM MDT
IN ADDITION TO TORRENTIAL RAINS...STRONG WINDS AND HAIL CAN ALSO BE
EXPECTED.
ARROYOS...STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES CAN BECOME RAGING CURRENTS
IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.
LAT...LON 3509 10566 3508 10539 3524 10529 3530 10509
3580 10509 3587 10568
$$
401 follow-up statement
000 WGUS75 KABQ 042254 FFSABQ NMC047-042315- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 454 PM MDT WED AUG 4 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR WESTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO AT 500 PM MDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS SUBSIDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT IS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING WILL CONTINUE...AND AN ARROYO AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED. BUT THE THREAT FOR SERIOUS FLASH FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ 40
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 5:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 118 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.