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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 9, 2004Harding County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2004, 7:51 PM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 114 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: Jul 9, 2004, 7:51 PM MDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2004, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harding County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 1953 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS55 KABQ 100154
FFWABQ
NMC021-100345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
751 PM MDT FRI JUL 9 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN HARDING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT

* AT 750 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHEASTERN HARDING COUNTY...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
  NORTH OF TUCUMCARI.  THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE...  
  OVER RURAL SOUTHEASTERN HARDING COUNTY 

THIS WARNING UPGRADES THE ARROYO AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY FOR 
SOUTHEAST HARDING COUNTY.

WATCH FOR FLOODING IN UTE CREEK AND ALONG HIGHWAY 39 NEAR AND 
SOUTHEAST OF UTE CREEK AND GALLEGOS RANCH. RUNOFF FROM THESE HEAVY 
RAINS WILL REMAIN HIGH UNTIL LATE IN THE EVENING.

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

ARROYOS...STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES CAN BECOME RAGING CURRENTS
IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.

WATER IN ARROYOS MAY TRAVEL MANY MILES AND TAKE HOURS TO REACH YOUR
LOCATION FROM UPSTREAM RAIN AREAS.

LAT...LON 3565 10364 3548 10373 3540 10352 3560 10338
$$
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1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS75 KABQ 100249
FFSABQ
NMC021-100345-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
844 PM MDT FRI JUL 9 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN HARDING
COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 945 PM MDT...

THE HEAVY RAINS IN SOUTHEAST HARDING COUNTY HAVE ENDED...BUT LIGHT 
RAIN WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AROUND 945 PM. MORE SHOWERS AND 
THUNDERSTORMS COULD MOVE ACROSS THIS AREA LATER IN THE EVENING. 

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 
STREAMS AND ARROYOS...POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS. HIGH RUNOFF 
SHOULD LAST UNTIL LATE THIS EVENING IN UTE CREEK AND IN LOW WATER 
CROSSINGS ALONG HIGHWAY 39 FROM UTE CREEK SOUTHEASTWARD THROUGH 
SOUTHEASTERN HARDING COUNTY.

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.

$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 9, 6:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	53 min
Jul 9, 7:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding	57 min
Jul 9, 8:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	56 min
Jul 9, 9:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	37 min
Jul 9, 9:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	66 min
Jul 9, 10:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	62 min
Jul 9, 10:48 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	117 min
Jul 9, 10:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	108 min
Jul 10, 2:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Lincoln	2 hr
Jul 10, 5:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	113 min

Nearby

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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.