Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2011

Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 10, 2011Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 2011, 5:39 PM MDT for Colfax 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 2011, 5:39 PM MDT (23:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2011, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 287 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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.

046 
WGUS55 KABQ 102339
FFWABQ
NMC007-110245-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0045.110810T2339Z-110811T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
539 PM MDT WED AUG 10 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 845 PM MDT

* AT 538 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF SUGARITE CANYON
  STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF RATON. THE STORM        
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 10 MPH.

  THIS WILL IMPACT THE TRACK FIRE BURN SCAR AS WELL AS SUGARITE
  CANYON STATE PARK...INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 455 AND
  459...BARTLETT MESA AND COUNTY ROAD 25

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS AROUND ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE 
WARNED AREA.

RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED WATER LEVELS WITHIN
VULNERABLE DRAINAGES IN AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE TRACK FIRE BURN AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 3689 10431 3687 10446 3698 10462 3701 10461
      3700 10430

$$


34

2 follow-up statements

447 
WGUS75 KABQ 110048
FFSABQ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
648 PM MDT WED AUG 10 2011

NMC007-110245-
/O.CON.KABQ.FF.W.0045.000000T0000Z-110811T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
COLFAX-
648 PM MDT WED AUG 10 2011

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY...

AT 646 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT THE VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS DIMINISHING OVER THE TRACK FIRE BURN 
SCAR.  HOWEVER...RADAR ESTIMATES OVER ONE INCH OF RAIN FELL ON THE 
SOUTHWESTERN HALF OF THE BURN AREA. THUS...RUNOFF FROM THESE HEAVY 
RAINS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. THE RUNOFF MAY IMPACT SUGARITE 
CANYON STATE PARK...INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 455 AND   
459...BARTLETT MESA AND COUNTY ROAD 25.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED WATER LEVELS WITHIN 
VULNERABLE DRAINAGES IN AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE TRACK FIRE BURN AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 3689 10431 3687 10446 3698 10462 3701 10461
      3700 10430

$$


34

474 
WGUS75 KABQ 110236
FFSABQ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
836 PM MDT WED AUG 10 2011

NMC007-110246-
/O.EXP.KABQ.FF.W.0045.000000T0000Z-110811T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
COLFAX-
836 PM MDT WED AUG 10 2011

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 845 PM MDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
COLFAX COUNTY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAS
ENDED 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 3689 10431 3687 10446 3698 10462 3701 10461
      3700 10430

$$
GUYER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 3:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	35 min
Aug 10, 3:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	42 min
Aug 10, 4:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca	119 min
Aug 10, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt	47 min
Aug 10, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt	23 min
Aug 10, 5:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	28 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2011 Every 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.