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Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 29, 2002Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2002, 5:21 PM MDT for Colfax 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
Jul 29, 2002, 5:21 PM MDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2002, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 214 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 232 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 2002-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 2002-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS55 KABQ 292321
FFWABQ
NMC007-300045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
520 PM MDT MON JUL 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTCENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT

* AT 507 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES          
  NORTHEAST OF UTE PARK OVER THE PONIL BURNED AREA. 

ARROYOS...STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES CAN BECOME RAGING CURRENTS 
IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. DO NOT CAMP ALONG STREAMS AND RIVERS. REMAIN 
ALERT WHEN HIKING IN STEEP...NARROW CANYONS. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 3682 10512 3653 10515 3633 10456 3661 10455

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 4:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe53 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.