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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2011, 2:21 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 86 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 12, 2011, 2:21 PM MDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2011, 3:47 PM MDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Lincoln County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
693 WGUS55 KABQ 122021 FFWABQ NMC027-122215- /O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0005.110712T2021Z-110712T2215Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 221 PM MDT TUE JUL 12 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 415 PM MDT * AT 218 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR RUIDOSO DOWNS...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF RUIDOSO. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THIS WILL IMPACT THE WHITE FIRE BURN SCAR AS WELL AS RUIDOSO DOWNS...HIGHWAY 70 AND RIO RUIDOSO. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED WATER LEVELS WITHIN VULNERABLE DRAINAGES IN AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE WHITE FIRE BURN AREA. && LAT...LON 3342 10566 3346 10545 3331 10552 3331 10567 $$ 40
2 follow-up statements
414 WGUS75 KABQ 122112 FFSABQ FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 312 PM MDT TUE JUL 12 2011 NMC027-122215- /O.CON.KABQ.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110712T2215Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LINCOLN- 312 PM MDT TUE JUL 12 2011 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM MDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 306 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR RUIDOSO DOWNS...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF RUIDOSO... MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED WATER LEVELS WITHIN VULNERABLE DRAINAGES IN AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE WHITE FIRE BURN AREA. && LAT...LON 3342 10566 3346 10545 3331 10552 3331 10567 $$ 40
162 WGUS75 KABQ 122147 FFSABQ FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 347 PM MDT TUE JUL 12 2011 NMC027-122156- /O.CAN.KABQ.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-110712T2215Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ LINCOLN- 347 PM MDT TUE JUL 12 2011 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY... MOSTLY JUST LIGHT RAIN WAS FALLING OVER THE WHITE FIRE BURN SCAR WITH NO REPORTS OF ANY FLOODING ISSUES. LAT...LON 3342 10566 3346 10545 3331 10552 3331 10567 $$ 40
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 12:52 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 38 min |
| Jul 12, 2:43 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 32 min |
| Jul 12, 1:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 31 min | |
| Jul 12, 1:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Catron, Cibola | 31 min |
| Jul 12, 1:51 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Cibola | 54 min |
| Jul 12, 3:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley | 91 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.