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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 5, 2004Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Oct 5, 2004, 2:06 PM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 84 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
Oct 5, 2004, 2:06 PM MDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 2004, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 82 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2004-10-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 465 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2004-10-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
465 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1157 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
312 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KABQ 052006
FFWABQ
NMC057-052130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
206 PM MDT TUE OCT 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  TORRANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 200 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  HEAVY RAIN 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLARD...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF ESTANCIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE...
  OVER RURAL CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY 
  OVER RURAL EASTERN TORRANCE COUNTY 
  OVER RURAL NORTHEASTERN TORRANCE COUNTY 

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.

LAT...LON 3473 10615 3444 10595 3480 10530 3499 10540

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS75 KABQ 052105
FFSABQ
NMC057-052130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
303 PM MDT TUE OCT 5 2004

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY IN
NEW MEXICO...


NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS
ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT WAS
DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT FOR
FLASH FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN 
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT 
HOUR AND ANOTHER FLASH FLOOD WARNING COULD BE ISSUED. 

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
STREAMS AND ARROYOS...POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS.

$$

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 4, 8:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCibola, Valencia37 min
Oct 4, 9:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo45 min
Oct 4, 9:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCibola61 min
Oct 4, 10:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo44 min
Oct 4, 11:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo43 min
Oct 5, 12:31 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval59 min
Oct 5, 12:47 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance58 min
Oct 5, 1:44 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance61 min
Oct 5, 2:17 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe58 min
Oct 5, 4:19 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca56 min
Oct 5, 4:42 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca, Quay3 hr
Oct 5, 5:06 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo39 min
Oct 5, 7:16 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt89 min
Oct 5, 7:37 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt38 min
Oct 5, 8:45 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt90 min
Oct 5, 9:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval50 min
Oct 5, 10:18 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval42 min
Oct 5, 11:46 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo59 min
Oct 5, 12:04 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca116 min
Oct 5, 12:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval36 min
Oct 5, 12:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQValencia40 min
Oct 5, 12:26 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCibola49 min
Oct 5, 12:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval, Valencia44 min
Oct 5, 1:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln39 min
Oct 5, 1:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQValencia46 min
Oct 5, 1:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo61 min
Oct 5, 1:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln45 min
Oct 5, 1:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro67 min
Oct 5, 1:58 PM MDTTornado WarningABQValencia17 min
Oct 5, 2:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance59 min
Oct 5, 2:14 PM MDTTornado WarningABQTorrance31 min
Oct 5, 2:29 PM MDTTornado WarningABQSocorro46 min
Oct 5, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln15 min
Oct 5, 2:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo51 min
Oct 5, 3:07 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves38 min
Oct 5, 3:45 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves45 min
Oct 5, 4:30 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves45 min
Oct 5, 4:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln56 min
Oct 5, 5:16 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves44 min
Oct 5, 5:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca95 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.