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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 13, 2011Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2011, 2:07 PM MDT for Lincoln 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: Jul 13, 2011, 2:07 PM MDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2011, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
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 20:10 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, 8.1 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.

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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 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.

409 
WGUS55 KABQ 132007
FFWABQ
NMC027-132300-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0007.110713T2007Z-110713T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
207 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM MDT

* AT 200 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS NEAR RUIDOSO DOWNS...OR ABOUT     7  
  7 MILES EAST OF RUIDOSO. THE STORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WERE
  TRAINING OVER THE SAME AREAS...WHILE MOVING NORTHEAST 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 3345 10568 3345 10546 3330 10546 3330 10567

$$

40

2 follow-up statements

423 
WGUS75 KABQ 132110
FFSABQ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
310 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

NMC027-132300-
/O.CON.KABQ.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110713T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LINCOLN-
310 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY...

AT 306 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN RESULTING IN 
FLASH FLOODING FROM RUIDOSO DOWNS NORTHEAST ALONG HIGHWAY 70 TO NEAR
GLENCOE. 

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 3345 10568 3345 10546 3330 10546 3330 10567

$$

40

310 
WGUS75 KABQ 132259
FFSABQ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
459 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

NMC027-132309-
/O.EXP.KABQ.FF.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110713T2300Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LINCOLN-
459 PM MDT WED JUL 13 2011

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 500 PM MDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL
LINCOLN COUNTY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS
ENDING 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 3345 10568 3345 10546 3330 10546 3330 10567

$$

40

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 6:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	88 min
Jul 12, 6:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval	86 min
Jul 13, 3:34 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	ABQ		17 hr
Jul 13, 11:01 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	119 min
Jul 13, 11:57 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	2 hr
Jul 13, 12:17 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	118 min
Jul 13, 12:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	2 hr
Jul 13, 1:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	119 min
Jul 13, 1:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Torrance	112 min
Jul 13, 1:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 13, 2:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt	3 hr
Jul 13, 3:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance	119 min
Jul 13, 4:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	35 min
Jul 13, 4:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	111 min
Jul 13, 4:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	32 min
Jul 13, 5:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Harding, Quay, Union	2 hr
Jul 13, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	48 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.