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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 4, 2012Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 4, 2012, 2:27 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 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: Jul 4, 2012, 2:27 PM MDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2012, 3:16 PM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 55 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 157 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

661 
WGUS55 KABQ 042027
FFWABQ
NMC027-042200-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0005.120704T2027Z-120704T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
227 PM MDT WED JUL 4 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 217 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE LITTLE BEAR AND WHITE
  BURN SCARS. THE STORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY 
  STATIONARY.

  THIS WILL IMPACT THE LITTLE BEAR BURN SCAR INCLUDING BUT NOT
  LIMITED TO HIGHWAY 70 FROM BISCUIT HILL TO RIVERSIDE OR FROM MILE
  POSTS 267 TO 300...AND HIGHWAY 48 FROM RUIDOSO TO ESCUDILLA RANCH
  OR FROM MILE POSTS 0 TO 17. OF PARTICULAR CONCERN WILL BE HIGHWAY
  48 AT SKI RUN ROAD...EAGLE CREEK...INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 37 AND
  48...RIO BONITO...AND ESCUDILLA...MAGADO CREEK.

  EVEN MODERATE RAINFALL IN UPSTREAM WATERSHEDS WILL RESULT IN RAPID
  AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FLOWS ALONG THE RIO RUIDOSO...EAGLE
  CREEK...LITTLE CREEK...MAGADO CREEK...RIO BONITO AND THE RIO HONDO
  FROM THE HIGHWAY 70 AND 380 JUNCTION TO RIVERSIDE. PLEASE CONTACT
  LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR EVACUATION PROCEDURES AND ROUTES.

  THIS WILL IMPACT THE WHITE FIRE BURN SCAR AS WELL AS RUIDOSO
  DOWNS...HIGHWAY 70 AND RIO RUIDOSO. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN
  BETWEEN FOREST SERVICE ROADS 120 AND 120A.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

LIFE THREATENING FLOODING OF CREEKS...ROADS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS
IS LIKELY. THE HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY TRIGGER ROCKSLIDES...MUDSLIDES
AND DEBRIS FLOWS IN STEEP TERRAIN...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE BURN AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 3331 10563 3338 10567 3338 10583 3344 10585
      3352 10580 3356 10571 3341 10543

$$

1 follow-up statement

354 
WGUS75 KABQ 042116
FFSABQ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
316 PM MDT WED JUL 4 2012

NMC027-042126-
/O.CAN.KABQ.FF.W.0005.000000T0000Z-120704T2200Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
LINCOLN-
316 PM MDT WED JUL 4 2012

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTH CENTRAL LINCOLN
COUNTY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL WAS ENDING
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING.
SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING
IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3331 10563 3338 10567 3338 10583 3344 10585
      3352 10580 3356 10571 3341 10543

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 1:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 4, 3:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	3 hr
Jul 4, 4:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance	2 hr
Jul 4, 5:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Valencia	117 min
Jul 4, 5:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	12 min
Jul 4, 5:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	36 min
Jul 4, 5:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	117 min
Jul 4, 5:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	24 min
Jul 4, 5:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	35 min
Jul 4, 5:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	54 min
Jul 4, 5:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, Valencia	93 min

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.