Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2004, 5:37 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 113 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 12, 2004, 5:37 PM MDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2004, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bernalillo County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 9 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 122338 FFWABQ NMC001-130130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 537 PM MDT MON JUL 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BERNALILLO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 730 PM MDT * AT 535 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SANDIA HEIGHTS...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN OBSERVED WITH THIS STORM. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE LOS RANCHOS DE ALBUQUERQUE...NORTH VALLEY AND SOUTH VALLEY KEEP CHILDREN AND PETS AWAY FROM ARROYOS AND DRAINAGE CHANNELS. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FAST FLOWING WATER ON FOOT. DITCHES ARE DEADLY. LAT...LON 3521 10642 3522 10664 3509 10687 3492 10662 $$ KJ
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS75 KABQ 130027 FFSABQ NMC001-130115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 627 PM MDT MON JUL 12 2004 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL BERNALILLO COUNTY UNTIL 645 PM MDT... ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL BERNALILLO COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM MDT... AT 625 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW THE CORE OF HEAVIEST RAINS CENTERED NEAR DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE. THE STORM WAS MOVIING TOWARD THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT 5 TO 10 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL OVER THE DOWNTOWN AREA INTO THE SOUTH VALLEY. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...ARROYOS AND DITCHES...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS. AT 545 PM...SPOTTERS NEAR ACADEMY AND EUBANK REPORTED 0.73 INCHES OF RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL. $$ KJ
000 WGUS75 KABQ 130131 FFSABQ NMC001-130145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 731 PM MDT MON JUL 12 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR CENTRAL BERNALILLO COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORM RAINS HAVE ENDED ACROSS THE ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA...AND THERE IS NO LONGER A THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE THROUGHOUT NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE NORTHEAST HEIGHTS AND SANDIA HEIGHTS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAINS EARLIER THIS EVENING. AS OF 730 PM...THE GREATEST RAINFALL TOTAL REPORTED IN THE METRO AEA WAS ONE INCH NEAR WILSHIRE AND EUBANK. 0.77 INCHES WAS REPORTED NEAR LOUISIANA AND SAN ANTONIO. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 6:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 113 min |
| Jul 12, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 59 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.