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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 22, 2016Rio Arriba County, Santa Fe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2016, 3:45 PM MDT for Rio Arriba County, Santa Fe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 22, 2016, 3:45 PM MDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2016, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Emergency: Flash flood emergency
Flood severity: None

Counties Rio Arriba County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 22, 3:49 PM MDT	FLASH FLOOD	Hernandez, NM	FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE ROADS IN HERNANDEZ.
Aug 22, 3:55 PM MDT	FLASH FLOOD	Alcalde, NM	ROADS ARE FLOODED AND IMPASSABLE IN ALCALDE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 904 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

147 
WGUS55 KABQ 222145
FFWABQ
NMC039-049-230045-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0039.160822T2145Z-160823T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
345 PM MDT MON AUG 22 2016

...FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR SOUTHEASTERN RIO ARRIBA COUNTY
INCLUDING CHILI...CHAMITA...HERNANDEZ...ALCALDE...AND LA VILLITA...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT
    
* AT 343 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA.
  ONE TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN. FLASH FLOODING IS LIKELY.

  THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR FAR SOUTHEASTERN RIO ARRIBA
  COUNTY. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ESPANOLA...CHIMAYO...SANTA CRUZ...RIO CHIQUITO...
  SANTA CLARA PUEBLO...CUARTELEZ...CUNDIYO...VELARDE...
  TRUCHAS AND LA PUEBLA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE
THREATENING SITUATION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL UNLESS YOU ARE
FLEEING AN AREA SUBJECT TO FLOODING OR UNDER AN EVACUATION ORDER.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3605 10575 3593 10585 3593 10603 3602 10629
      3622 10605

$$

SHOEMAKE

1 follow-up statement

123 
WGUS75 KABQ 222304
FFSABQ

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
504 PM MDT MON AUG 22 2016

NMC039-049-230045-
/O.CON.KABQ.FF.W.0039.000000T0000Z-160823T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
RIO ARRIBA-SANTA FE-
504 PM MDT MON AUG 22 2016

...THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR SOUTHEASTERN RIO ARRIBA
COUNTY INCLUDING CHILI...CHAMITA...HERNANDEZ...ALCALDE...AND LA
VILLITA...

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN RIO ARRIBA AND NORTH CENTRAL SANTA FE COUNTIES...

AT 502 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN
HERNANDEZ...ALCALDE...AND CHAMITA!. RADAR ESTIMATES TWO TO FIVE
INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN PORTIONS OF THE WARNED AREA.

THIS IS A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY FOR FAR SOUTHEASTERN RIO ARRIBA
COUNTY. SEEK HIGHER GROUND NOW!

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ESPANOLA...CHIMAYO...SANTA CRUZ...RIO CHIQUITO...
SANTA CLARA PUEBLO...CUARTELEZ...CUNDIYO...VELARDE...
TRUCHAS AND LA PUEBLA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND NOW. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE
THREATENING SITUATION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL UNLESS YOU ARE
FLEEING AN AREA SUBJECT TO FLOODING OR UNDER AN EVACUATION ORDER.

DO NOT ENTER OR CROSS FLOWING WATER OR WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. 

&&

LAT...LON 3605 10575 3593 10585 3593 10603 3602 10629
      3622 10605

$$

SHOEMAKE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 6:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	116 min
Aug 21, 6:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	112 min
Aug 21, 6:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	2 hr
Aug 21, 7:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	2 hr
Aug 21, 7:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	119 min
Aug 21, 7:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	111 min
Aug 21, 9:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval, Santa Fe	2 hr
Aug 22, 1:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	35 min
Aug 22, 1:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	32 min
Aug 22, 1:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	30 min
Aug 22, 1:52 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	113 min
Aug 22, 2:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	32 min
Aug 22, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Santa Fe	46 min
Aug 22, 3:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	114 min
Aug 22, 4:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	35 min
Aug 22, 4:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	33 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.