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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2011, 6:26 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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
- Aug 5, 2011, 6:26 PM MDT (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2011, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
County Bernalillo County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 358 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 5, 2:43 PM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:43 PM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 530 AM MDT FRI AUG 5 2011 CORRECTION TO CHANGE DAY SEVEN FROM WEDNESDAY TO THURSDAY. NMZ501>540-051200- NORTHWEST PLATEAU-CHUSKA MOUNTAINS-FAR NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS- NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-WEST CENTRAL PLATEAU-WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- WEST CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS- SAN FRANCISCO RIVER VALLEY-SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-JEMEZ MOUNTAINS- WEST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 9500 FEET/RED RIVER- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 9500 FEET- EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- LOWER CHAMA RIVER VALLEY-SANTA FE METRO AREA-ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA- LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-ESTANCIA VALLEY- CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-UPPER TULAROSA VALLEY- SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA- FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-UNION COUNTY- HARDING COUNTY-EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY-GUADALUPE COUNTY- QUAY COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY-SOUTHWEST CHAVES COUNTY- 530 AM MDT FRI AUG 5 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL...SOUTH CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NEW MEXICO WILL AGAIN BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AT RATES OF THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH TO AROUND AN INCH PER HOUR THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. DRAINAGE PROBLEMS MAY DEVELOP IN LOCATIONS WHERE THE GROUND HAS ALREADY BEEN SATURATED BY RECENT RAINFALL. RECENT WILDFIRE BURN SCARS WILL ALSO BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO HEAVY RUNOFF OR EVEN VERY LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING IF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPS ON THE SCAR. HAIL TO DIME SIZE OR SLIGHTLY LARGER AND WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE IN THE STRONGEST STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. BUT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY STILL BECOME STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL MAINLY ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF THE NORTHERN GILA REGION AS WELL AS IN AND NEAR LINCOLN COUNTY DURING THE WEEKEND. WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS... WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS GENERALLY NOT ANTICIPATED...HOWEVER FLASH FLOOD AND HEAVY RAINFALL REPORTS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. 43
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 6:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Torrance | 116 min |
| Aug 6, 12:40 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 1:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:04 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:42 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 110 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.