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Flash Flood Warning 127, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 20, 2013Catron County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 20, 2013, 2:02 PM MDT for Catron County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 20, 2013, 2:02 PM MDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: Sep 20, 2013, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Catron County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 20, 11:35 AM MDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 11:35 AM MDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 20, 5:06 AM MDT, 8 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
506 AM MDT FRI SEP 20 2013

NMZ501>540-211115-
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-
506 AM MDT FRI SEP 20 2013

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL
NEW MEXICO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER THE WESTERN AND
NORTHERN HIGH TERRAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS
AND SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
ACROSS THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN HIGH TERRAIN. OTHERWISE...NO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...WEATHER CAN
CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND
WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 19, 7:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	2 hr
Sep 19, 7:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	112 min
Sep 19, 8:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	112 min
Sep 19, 8:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	94 min
Sep 19, 10:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Quay	89 min
Sep 19, 10:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	37 min
Sep 19, 10:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	114 min
Sep 19, 10:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	33 min
Sep 19, 11:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	33 min
Sep 20, 1:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	115 min
Sep 20, 2:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	2 hr
Sep 20, 2:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	23 min
Sep 20, 2:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola	118 min
Sep 20, 3:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Cibola	2 hr
Sep 20, 3:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	115 min
Sep 20, 4:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	112 min
Sep 20, 4:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	2 hr
Sep 20, 5:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe	112 min
Sep 20, 5:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval	115 min
Sep 20, 5:59 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Catron	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2013 Every flash flood warning in 2013

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.