Alert archive / New Mexico / Areal Flood Advisories in 2011
Areal Flood Advisory 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 11, 2011, 1:45 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2011, 1:45 PM MDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2011, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Los Alamos County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Jul 11, 6:52 AM MDT, 6 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 6:52 AM MDT, 6 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 6:15 AM MDT, 7 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 615 AM MDT MON JUL 11 2011 NMZ501>540-121200- 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- 615 AM MDT MON JUL 11 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ALONG AND WEST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE MOST POSSIBLE BELOW BURN SCARS FROM RECENT WILD FIRES. PLEASE REVIEW THE LATEST FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MORE INFORMATION. GUSTY WINDS BETWEEN 35 AND 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ON TUESDAY...THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL PERSIST DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS ALONG AND WEST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE BELOW BURN SCARS FROM RECENT WILD FIRES. AFTER A MINOR DROPOFF IN SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WEDNESDAY AND POSSIBLY THURSDAY...THE MONSOON MOISTURE PLUME MAY RESTRENGTHEN TO A DEGREE OVER NEW MEXICO LATE WEEK INTO AT LEAST THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEKEND. SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY BELOW BURN SCARS THAT HAVE FORMED WITHIN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WIDESPREAD SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED...BUT ANY REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING...HAIL OR HIGH THUNDERSTORM GENERATED WINDS ARE ENCOURAGED. 43
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 12:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval | 2 hr |
| Jul 11, 2:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 3:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Catron | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 4:06 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, McKinley | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 4:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, McKinley | 117 min |
| Jul 11, 4:44 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval | 2 hr |
| Jul 11, 5:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 29 min |
| Jul 11, 5:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba, San Juan | 2 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Advisories in New Mexico, 2011Every areal flood advisory in 2011
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.