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Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 26, 2012Santa Fe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2012, 2:27 PM MDT for Santa Fe 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: Jul 26, 2012, 2:27 PM MDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2012, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Santa Fe County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -230 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2303 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

904 
WGUS55 KABQ 262027
FFWABQ
NMC049-262230-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0018.120726T2027Z-120726T2230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
227 PM MDT THU JUL 26 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL SANTA FE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 220 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF POJOAQUE...OR
  ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SANTA FE. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY     
  HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. AREAS MOST IMPACTED WILL LIKELY  
  INCLUDE CANADA ARROYO AND ITS WATERSHED AFFECTING COUNTY ROAD 77 AND
  ARROYOS FLOWING UNDER HIGHWAY 502 WEST OF POJOAQUE TO THE RIO      
  GRANDE. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. MANY FLASH
FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3582 10617 3592 10612 3587 10592 3568 10599
      3574 10623

$$
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1 follow-up statement

461 
WGUS75 KABQ 262119
FFSABQ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
319 PM MDT THU JUL 26 2012

NMC049-262230-
/O.CON.KABQ.FF.W.0018.000000T0000Z-120726T2230Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
SANTA FE-
319 PM MDT THU JUL 26 2012

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM MDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL SANTA FE COUNTY...

AT 312 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN 10 TO 15 
MILES SOUTHWEST OF POJOAQUE...OR ABOUT 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
SANTA FE. RAINFALL RATES ARE DECREASING WITH THE STORM...BUT HIGH OR 
OVERBANK FLOWS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE IN ARROYOS FLOWING WEST AND 
NORTHWEST INTO THE RIO GRANDE THROUGH 430 PM. THE STORM WAS NEARLY 
STATIONARY.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  POJOAQUE PUEBLO...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

ARROYOS...STREAMS AND RIVERS CAN BECOME RAGING KILLER CURRENTS IN A
MATTER OF MINUTES. KNOW WHERE HIGHER GROUND IS LOCATED.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
STREAMS AND ARROYOS...POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3582 10617 3592 10612 3587 10592 3568 10599
      3574 10623

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 6:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	83 min
Jul 25, 8:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	2 hr
Jul 26, 12:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	108 min
Jul 26, 2:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval, Santa Fe	2 hr
Jul 26, 2:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	ABQ		8 hr
Jul 26, 3:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	112 min
Jul 26, 3:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	2 hr
Jul 26, 3:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	2 hr
Jul 26, 4:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	118 min
Jul 26, 5:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	116 min
Jul 26, 5:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.