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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 2, 2010Taos County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2010, 4:30 PM MDT for Taos County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 2, 2010, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2010, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Taos County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 379 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 656 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 2, 3:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 3:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 5:34 AM MDT, 10 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
534 AM MDT MON AUG 2 2010

NMZ501>540-031200-
NORTHWEST PLATEAU-CHUSKA MOUNTAINS-FAR NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-
NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-WEST CENTRAL PLATEAU-WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-
WEST CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-
SAN FRANCISCO RIVER VALLEY-SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-JEMEZ MOUNTAINS-
WEST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-
NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 9500 FEET/RED RIVER-
SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 9500 FEET-
EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-
LOWER CHAMA RIVER VALLEY-SANTA FE METRO AREA-ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-
LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-ESTANCIA VALLEY-
CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-UPPER TULAROSA VALLEY-
SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA-
FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-UNION COUNTY-
HARDING COUNTY-EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY-GUADALUPE COUNTY-
QUAY COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY-
CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY-SOUTHWEST CHAVES COUNTY-
534 AM MDT MON AUG 2 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL
NEW MEXICO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE NORTHWESTERN QUARTER OF NEW MEXICO IS
EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY... WHERE LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING
MAY OCCUR. PLEASE REFER TO THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MORE DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

ALTHOUGH THE THREAT FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW AT
THIS TIME...NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
REDEVELOP ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...PARTICULARLY OVER THE
NORTHERN...NORTHWESTERN...AND SOUTHWESTERN MOUNTAINS WHERE SOME
LOCALIZED AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE MOST LIKELY.

WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST
FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY FLOODING OR HEAVY
RAINFALL TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE AT
1.888.386.7637 OR VIA OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/ABQ.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 6:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan	110 min
Aug 1, 7:39 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	2 hr
Aug 1, 8:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Valencia	65 min
Aug 1, 8:15 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	2 hr
Aug 2, 12:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	117 min
Aug 2, 1:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval	2 hr
Aug 2, 1:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	112 min
Aug 2, 2:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	113 min
Aug 2, 2:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	118 min
Aug 2, 2:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola	2 hr
Aug 2, 3:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	2 hr
Aug 2, 3:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	112 min
Aug 2, 3:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval	89 min
Aug 2, 3:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	2 hr
Aug 2, 4:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, Rio Arriba, Taos	2 hr
Aug 2, 4:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	116 min
Aug 2, 4:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	2 hr
Aug 2, 4:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	111 min
Aug 2, 4:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	2 hr
Aug 2, 5:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	113 min
Aug 2, 5:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Socorro	116 min
Aug 2, 5:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	95 min
Aug 2, 5:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	24 min
Aug 2, 5:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	113 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.