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Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2010, 8:40 PM MDT for Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 95 min. 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, 8:40 PM MDT (02:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2010, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Sandoval County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 5 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 3:02 PM MDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
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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. 52
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 5:36 PM MDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 6:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | McKinley | 96 min |
| Aug 2, 6:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 103 min |
| Aug 2, 6:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Cibola, McKinley | 110 min |
| Aug 2, 6:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron | 114 min |
| Aug 2, 6:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 36 min |
| Aug 2, 6:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, McKinley | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 7:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval | 113 min |
| Aug 2, 7:55 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | San Miguel, Santa Fe | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:44 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Socorro | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 8:53 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan | 112 min |
| Aug 2, 9:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 9:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 10:44 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Sandoval | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 10:47 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan, Socorro | 118 min |
| Aug 3, 4:34 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | ABQ | 18 hr | |
| Aug 3, 1:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley | 119 min |
| Aug 3, 2:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Cibola, Socorro, Valencia | 117 min |
| Aug 3, 2:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | San Juan | 118 min |
| Aug 3, 2:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Juan | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:16 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Socorro | 119 min |
| Aug 3, 3:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley | 111 min |
| Aug 3, 4:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | McKinley | 86 min |
| Aug 3, 4:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | McKinley, San Juan | 115 min |
| Aug 3, 5:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Juan | 74 min |
| Aug 3, 5:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | McKinley | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010
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.