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Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 21, 2011Los Alamos County, Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 2011, 6:03 PM MDT for Los Alamos County, Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 117 min. 1 report 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 21, 2011, 6:03 PM MDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 2011, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Los Alamos County, NM, Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 21, 6:30 PM MDT	FLASH FLOOD	Bandelier Natl Monument, NM	FLASH FLOODING NOTED ALONG FRIJOLES CREEK. TWO BARRIER WALLS AROUND THE BANDELIER NATIONAL MONUMENT VISITORS CENTER WERE OVERTOPPED. SEPTIC SYSTEM LIFT STATIN WAS INUNDATED.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 660 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

654 
WGUS55 KABQ 220003
FFWABQ
NMC028-043-220200-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0055.110822T0003Z-110822T0200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN LOS ALAMOS 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 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF COCHITI
  LAKE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOS ALAMOS. THE STORM
  PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

  THIS WILL IMPACT THE LAS CONCHAS BURN SCAR INCLUDING BUT NOT
  LIMITED TO BANDELIER NATIONAL MONUMENT...FRIJOLES CANYON...COCHITI
  CANYON...PERALTA CANYON...HIGHWAY 4 FROM STATE ROAD 501 JUNCTION TO
  LAS CONCHAS CAMPGROUND AND DOME WILDERNESS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3584 10658 3584 10625 3564 10625 3561 10658

$$
GUYER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 6:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro	81 min
Aug 21, 6:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	92 min
Aug 21, 6:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe	59 min
Aug 21, 7:08 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 21, 7:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro	3 hr
Aug 21, 7:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	2 hr
Aug 21, 8:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	116 min
Aug 21, 10:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	33 min
Aug 22, 2:24 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	111 min
Aug 22, 1:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	3 hr
Aug 22, 2:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	108 min
Aug 22, 3:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	116 min
Aug 22, 4:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Union	2 hr

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.