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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 24, 2010Catron County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 2010, 4:56 PM MDT for Catron County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 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 24, 2010, 4:56 PM MDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2010, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Catron County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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

Tuscon, AZ (KTUS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 303 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: 298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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 24, 3:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 3:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 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 23, 6:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	23 min
Aug 23, 6:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	119 min
Aug 23, 6:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	95 min
Aug 23, 6:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	119 min
Aug 23, 6:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	82 min
Aug 23, 6:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	119 min
Aug 23, 7:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	22 min
Aug 23, 7:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	39 min
Aug 23, 7:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	112 min
Aug 23, 7:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	27 min
Aug 23, 7:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Torrance	112 min
Aug 23, 7:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	85 min
Aug 23, 7:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	91 min
Aug 23, 8:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	45 min
Aug 23, 8:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Quay	86 min
Aug 23, 8:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	53 min
Aug 23, 10:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance	3 hr
Aug 23, 11:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	3 hr
Aug 24, 4:21 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	ABQ		9 hr
Aug 24, 11:06 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	114 min
Aug 24, 1:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	85 min
Aug 24, 2:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	92 min
Aug 24, 4:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	87 min

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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.