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Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 21, 2011Catron County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 2011, 1:56 PM MDT for Catron County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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 21, 2011, 1:56 PM MDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 2011, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Catron County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 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.

751 
WGUS55 KABQ 211956
FFWABQ
NMC003-212200-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0052.110821T1956Z-110821T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
156 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CATRON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 148 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN CATRON
  COUNTY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF DATIL. THE STORM PRODUCING
  VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATE
  THAT UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY
  RAIN WILL IMPACT HIGHWAY 60 THROUGH WHITE HOUSE CANYON NORTH OF
  DATIL...FOREST SERVICE ROAD 59 AROUND THE THOMPSON CANYON ROCK
  CLIMBING AREA...AND FOREST SERVICE ROADS 6 AND 14.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BOTH LOCALIZED AND DISTANT HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CREATE SUDDEN AND
DANGEROUS FLOWS IN ARROYOS AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

ARROYOS...STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY WASHES CAN BECOME RAGING CURRENTS
IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.

&&

LAT...LON 3425 10802 3433 10801 3435 10784 3417 10780
      3414 10789

$$
GUYER

2 follow-up statements

436 
WGUS75 KABQ 212103
FFSABQ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
303 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2011

NMC003-212200-
/O.CON.KABQ.FF.W.0052.000000T0000Z-110821T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CATRON-
303 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2011

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN CATRON COUNTY...

AT 254 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. LIGHT TO MODERATE
RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH STRONG FLOWS ALONG HIGHWAY
60 WITHIN WHITE HOUSE CANYON...AND FOREST SERVICE ROADS 6...59
AND 14.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  THE THOMPSON CANYON ROCK CLIMBING AREA...

LAT...LON 3425 10802 3433 10801 3435 10784 3417 10780
      3414 10789

$$
GUYER

653 
WGUS75 KABQ 212157
FFSABQ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
357 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2011

NMC003-212207-
/O.EXP.KABQ.FF.W.0052.000000T0000Z-110821T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CATRON-
357 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2011

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 400 PM MDT FOR NORTHEASTERN
CATRON COUNTY...

LAT...LON 3425 10802 3433 10801 3435 10784 3417 10780
      3414 10789

$$
GUYER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 20, 6:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	27 min
Aug 20, 6:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding	85 min
Aug 20, 10:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	32 min
Aug 21, 12:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	89 min
Aug 21, 1:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	2 hr
Aug 21, 2:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	2 hr
Aug 21, 2:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	115 min
Aug 21, 2:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	2 hr
Aug 21, 3:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval, Santa Fe	111 min
Aug 21, 3:21 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	114 min
Aug 21, 3:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	118 min
Aug 21, 3:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Socorro, Torrance, Valencia	52 min
Aug 21, 4:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Santa Fe	93 min
Aug 21, 4:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Torrance	2 hr
Aug 21, 4:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	87 min
Aug 21, 4:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance	3 hr
Aug 21, 5:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	119 min
Aug 21, 5:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 21, 5:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe	94 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.