Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2005, 3:18 PM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2005, 3:18 PM MDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2005, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Torrance County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 4:49 PM MDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 Sw Encino, NM | STORM TOTAL PRECIPITATION...3.86 INCHES. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 437 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS55 KABQ 262119 FFWABQ NMC057-270015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 318 PM MDT SUN JUN 26 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 615 PM MDT * AT 313 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS NEAR ENCINO...OR ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF VAUGHN. THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN MAY HAVE ALREADY FALLEN OVER THE WARNING AREA WITH ANOTHER INCH OR TWO POSSIBLE THROUGH 600 PM MDT. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. MANY FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. LAT...LON 3444 10573 3443 10530 3477 10533 3477 10567 $$ 40
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS75 KABQ 270014 FFSABQ FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 613 PM MDT SUN JUN 26 2005 NMC057-270023- TORRANCE- 613 PM MDT SUN JUN 26 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR EAST CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 3444 10573 3443 10530 3477 10533 3477 10567 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 60 min |
| Jun 26, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 3:20 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 3:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 54 min |
| Jun 26, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 60 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.