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Flash Flood Warning 72, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 16, 20104 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 16, 2010, 3:48 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 87 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 16, 2010, 3:48 PM MDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2010, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Los Alamos County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 402 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3310 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 16, 2:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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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 15, 6:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	2 hr
Aug 15, 6:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	117 min
Aug 15, 7:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe	118 min
Aug 15, 8:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	119 min
Aug 15, 8:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Mora, San Miguel	2 hr
Aug 15, 9:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	2 hr
Aug 15, 9:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro, Valencia	115 min
Aug 15, 9:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	113 min
Aug 15, 9:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	116 min
Aug 15, 10:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	2 hr
Aug 15, 10:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel	117 min
Aug 15, 10:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	2 hr
Aug 15, 11:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	109 min
Aug 15, 11:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	2 hr
Aug 16, 12:53 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	112 min
Aug 16, 1:10 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	110 min
Aug 16, 2:44 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt	2 hr
Aug 16, 3:40 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	80 min
Aug 16, 3:46 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	119 min
Aug 16, 3:58 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	2 hr
Aug 16, 4:19 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Quay	116 min
Aug 16, 6:11 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt	109 min
Aug 16, 6:41 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	109 min
Aug 16, 7:40 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Union	110 min
Aug 16, 10:14 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	ABQ		12 hr
Aug 16, 12:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	58 min
Aug 16, 1:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln, Socorro	117 min
Aug 16, 2:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	110 min
Aug 16, 3:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance	116 min
Aug 16, 5:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	47 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.