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Areal Flood Advisory 607, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 16, 2010Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this areal flood advisory at Sep 16, 2010, 4:49 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 116 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 16, 2010, 4:49 PM MDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired
Sep 16, 2010, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
116 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 342 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1812 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2010-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
1812 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
970 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 1:17 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLincoln, Socorro118 min
Sep 16, 2:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQRoosevelt30 min
Sep 16, 2:39 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQChaves, De Baca, Roosevelt111 min
Sep 16, 3:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora37 min
Sep 16, 3:45 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQChaves2 hr
Sep 16, 3:56 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQMora, San Miguel94 min
Sep 16, 4:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax23 min
Sep 16, 4:49 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQChaves, Roosevelt86 min

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.