Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2011
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2011, 6:08 PM MDT for Los Alamos County, Rio Arriba County, Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 112 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 2011, 6:08 PM MDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2011, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 112 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
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2944 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
889
WGUS55 KABQ 270008
FFWABQ
NMC028-039-043-270200-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0024.110727T0008Z-110727T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
608 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
WESTERN LOS ALAMOS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
SOUTH CENTRAL RIO ARRIBA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
EAST CENTRAL SANDOVAL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 800 PM MDT
* AT 600 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF LOS ALAMOS. THE
STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THIS
THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER THE JEMEZ RIVER VALLEY AND AT THE
HEADWATERS OF PERALTA CANYON.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE LAS CONCHAS BURN SCAR INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO LOS ALAMOS...SANTA CLARA CANYON...RIO DEL OSO...CAMP MAY
ROAD...QUEMAZAN TRAIL...HIGHWAY 4 FROM STATE ROAD 501 JUNCTION TO
LAS CONCHAS CAMPGROUND...INDIAN SERVICE ROUTE 602...BANDELIER
NATIONAL MONUMENT...FRIJOLES CANYON...COCHITI CANYON...PERALTA
CANYON...DOME WILDERNESS AND EASTERN PORTION OF VALLES CALDERA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BOTH LOCALIZED AND DISTANT HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CREATE SUDDEN AND
DANGEROUS FLOWS IN ARROYOS AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED WATER LEVELS WITHIN
VULNERABLE DRAINAGES IN AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE LAS CONCHAS FIRE BURN
AREA.
&&
LAT...LON 3587 10652 3608 10653 3610 10626 3586 10631
3567 10625 3566 10657
$$1 follow-up statement
040
WGUS75 KABQ 270150
FFSABQ
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
750 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2011
NMC028-039-043-270200-
/O.EXP.KABQ.FF.W.0024.000000T0000Z-110727T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LOS ALAMOS-RIO ARRIBA-SANDOVAL-
750 PM MDT TUE JUL 26 2011
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 800 PM MDT FOR EAST CENTRAL
SANDOVAL...SOUTH CENTRAL RIO ARRIBA AND WESTERN LOS ALAMOS
COUNTIES...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS
ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT WAS
DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT FOR
FLASH FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 3587 10652 3608 10653 3610 10626 3586 10631
3567 10625 3566 10657
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 6:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba, San Juan | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 6:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 7:37 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | ABQ | 12 hr | |
| Jul 27, 3:50 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval | 115 min |
| Jul 27, 4:04 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval | 116 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2011Every flash flood warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.