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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2006, 5:30 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 5, 2006, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2006, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Guadalupe County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 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 052332
FFWABQ
NMC019-060030-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
530 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL GUADALUPE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 630 PM MDT
* AT 525 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN NEAR SANTA ROSA.
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANTA ROSA.
THESE STORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE NEARLY STATIONARY BUT
MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTHEAST.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SANTA ROSA...
PUERTO DE LUNA...
SANTA ROSA LAKE STATE PARK...
INTERSTATE 40 WEST OF SANTA ROSA...
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE INCH OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS..
DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. MANY FLASH
FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
ALBUQUERQUE.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...TELEVISION
STATIONS...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3491 10486 3476 10469 3488 10445 3511 10468
3499 10490
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WGUS75 KABQ 052356
FFSABQ
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
554 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 2006
NMC019-060030-
GUADALUPE-
554 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 2006
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL GUADALUPE
COUNTY UNTIL 630 PM MDT...
AT 548 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN LOCATED 6 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF SANTA ROSA. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WAS
NEARLY STATIONARY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HIGHWAY 54 SOUTHWEST OF SANTA ROSA...
WESTERN SANTA ROSA
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. MANY
FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.
TO REPORT FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN ALBUQUERQUE.
LAT...LON 3491 10486 3476 10469 3488 10445 3500 10465
3499 10490
$$000
WGUS75 KABQ 060031
FFSABQ
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
631 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 2006
NMC019-060041-
GUADALUPE-
631 PM MDT SAT AUG 5 2006
...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR CENTRAL GUADALUPE
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 3491 10486 3476 10469 3488 10445 3500 10465
3499 10490
$$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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.