Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2012
Flash Flood Warning 27, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2012, 1:36 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 13, 2012, 1:36 PM MDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2012, 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 Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 224 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 1849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
880
WGUS55 KABQ 131936
FFWABQ
NMC003-132200-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0027.120813T1936Z-120813T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
136 PM MDT MON AUG 13 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL CATRON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 400 PM MDT
* AT 129 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM PERSISTENT THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL
CATRON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RESERVE. STORMS
WERE NEARLY STATIONARY...IMPACTING AREAS NEAR SNOW CANYON AND
QUAKING ASPEN CREEK NEAR FOREST ROAD 142.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED WATER LEVELS WITHIN
VULNERABLE DRAINAGES IN AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE NORTH CENTRAL PORTIONS
OF THE WHITEWATER BALDY FIRE BURN AREA.
WATER IN ARROYOS MAY TRAVEL MANY MILES AND TAKE HOURS TO REACH YOUR
LOCATION FROM UPSTREAM RAIN AREAS.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN ALBUQUERQUE AT 1-888-386-7637.
&&
LAT...LON 3372 10848 3357 10815 3338 10837 3339 10867
3345 10868
$$
SHOEMAKE1 follow-up statement
785
WGUS75 KABQ 132045
FFSABQ
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
245 PM MDT MON AUG 13 2012
NMC003-132200-
/O.CON.KABQ.FF.W.0027.000000T0000Z-120813T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
CATRON-
245 PM MDT MON AUG 13 2012
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL CATRON COUNTY...
AT 239 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A FLASH FLOOD THREAT OVER SOUTH CENTRAL CATRON COUNTY...OR
ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RESERVE. WHILE THE INTENSITY OF STORMS
HAS DIMINISHED OVER THE WARNING AREA...EXCESSIVE RUNOFF WILL LIKELY
CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL SOUTH CENTRAL CATRON COUNTY...
SNOW CANYON...
SNOW LAKE...
QUAKING ASPEN CREEK...
T BAR RIDGE...
PORTIONS OF FOREST ROAD 142...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
RUNOFF FROM RAINFALL WILL CAUSE ELEVATED WATER LEVELS WITHIN
VULNERABLE DRAINAGES IN AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE NORTH CENTRAL SECTIONS
OF THE WHITEWATER BALDY FIRE BURN AREA.
RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS MAY TAKE SEVERAL HOURS TO REACH DOWNSTREAM
WASHES...ARROYOS...CREEKS...AND STREAMS. GENTLE FLOWING DRAINAGE
AREAS CAN ABRUPTLY TURN INTO RAGING TORRENTS OF WATER.
&&
LAT...LON 3372 10848 3357 10815 3338 10837 3339 10867
3345 10868
$$
52The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 6:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance | 112 min |
| Aug 12, 6:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo | 2 hr |
| Aug 12, 6:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance, Valencia | 2 hr |
| Aug 12, 7:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, Lincoln, San Miguel, Torrance | 109 min |
| Aug 12, 7:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 8:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 63 min |
| Aug 12, 9:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 117 min |
| Aug 13, 3:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:04 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron | 116 min |
| Aug 13, 4:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 48 min |
| Aug 13, 5:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 42 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.