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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 5, 2011Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2011, 1:28 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 2011, 1:28 PM MDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2011, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 5, 1:45 PM MDT	FLASH FLOOD	Ruidoso Downs, NM	FLOODING AT HIGHLANDS AND JOE WELCH INTERSECTION. ESTIMATED 2 FEET DEEP.
Aug 5, 2:00 PM MDT	FLASH FLOOD	1 Sw Ruidoso Downs, NM	FLASH FLOODING AND DEBRIS NOTED NEAR BUSINESSES ALONG HIGWAY 70.
Aug 5, 2:24 PM MDT	FLASH FLOOD	1 Sw Ruidoso Downs, NM	FLASH FLOODING AND DEBRIS NOTED NEAR BUSINESSES ALONG HIGWAY 70.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2247 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

738 
WGUS55 KABQ 051928
FFWABQ
NMC027-052130-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0041.110805T1928Z-110805T2130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
128 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 330 PM MDT

* AT 122 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF TINNIE TO GLENCOE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 24 MILES EAST OF RUIDOSO TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUIDOSO...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

  THIS WILL IMPACT THE WHITE FIRE BURN SCAR AS WELL AS RUIDOSO
  DOWNS...HIGHWAY 70 AND RIO RUIDOSO.

  THIS WILL IMPACT THE DONALDSON FIRE BURN SCAR INCLUDING AREAS ALONG
  ALAMO CANYON ROAD...PICACHO CANYON...AND PICACHO ROAD. AREAS NEAR
  AND IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 70 FROM HONDO TO TINNIE TO JUST
  WEST OF PICACHO MAY ALSO BE IMPACTED.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED WATER LEVELS WITHIN 
VULNERABLE DRAINAGES IN AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE WHITE AND DONALDSON 
FIRE BURN AREAS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY...AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
ALBUQUERQUE AT 1-888-386-7637.

&&

LAT...LON 3326 10532 3331 10532 3331 10561 3334 10565
      3343 10554 3342 10522 3332 10512 3325 10531

$$

DPORTER

1 follow-up statement

337 
WGUS75 KABQ 052023
FFSABQ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
223 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 2011

NMC027-052130-
/O.CON.KABQ.FF.W.0041.000000T0000Z-110805T2130Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LINCOLN-
223 PM MDT FRI AUG 5 2011

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM MDT FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY...

AT 145 PM MDT...THE RUIDOSO DOWNS POST OFFICE NOTED FLASH FLOODING 
NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHLANDS AND JOE WELCH. WATER WAS TWO FEET 
DEEP AND THE INTERSECTION WAS IMPASSIBLE.

FLASH FLOODING IS ALSO LIKELY OVER THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE 
DONALDSON BURN SCAR. MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES OVER THIS AREA...THUS 
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO ONE HALF OF AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3326 10532 3331 10532 3331 10561 3334 10565
      3343 10554 3342 10522 3332 10512 3325 10531

$$

DPORTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 7:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval	113 min
Aug 5, 12:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval	112 min
Aug 5, 12:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	2 hr
Aug 5, 1:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	116 min
Aug 5, 1:56 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 5, 2:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	118 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.