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Areal Flood Advisory 252, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 15, 2011Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 15, 2011, 5:31 PM MDT for Socorro County, New Mexico. It was in force for 119 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 15, 2011, 5:31 PM MDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 2011, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2011-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2011-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 12:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLos Alamos, Sandoval115 min
Aug 15, 3:35 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSocorro115 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.