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Areal Flood Advisory 511, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 16, 20214 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 16, 2021, 4:50 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 16, 2021, 4:50 PM MDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2021, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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: 894 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 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 areal flood advisory 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 areal flood advisory went out at Aug 16, 3:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 3:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 4:13 PM MDT, 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 16, 12:34 PM MDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 1:42 PM MDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 16, 2:50 PM MDT, 2 hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 6:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Los Alamos, Sandoval	28 min
Aug 15, 6:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe	34 min
Aug 15, 7:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Torrance, Valencia	38 min
Aug 15, 7:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval, Santa Fe	3 hr
Aug 15, 7:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 15, 7:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	3 hr
Aug 15, 7:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	48 min
Aug 15, 8:53 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Bernalillo	3 hr
Aug 15, 9:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Aug 16, 10:26 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Lincoln, McKinley and 4 more	17 min
Aug 16, 10:43 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Lincoln, McKinley and 4 more	11 hr
Aug 16, 12:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	26 min
Aug 16, 1:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	3 hr
Aug 16, 1:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 16, 1:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	33 min
Aug 16, 1:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 16, 2:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 16, 2:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	3 hr
Aug 16, 2:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	25 min
Aug 16, 2:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	3 hr
Aug 16, 3:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	3 hr
Aug 16, 3:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe, Torrance	3 hr
Aug 16, 3:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	3 hr
Aug 16, 3:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	3 hr
Aug 16, 4:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	3 hr
Aug 16, 5:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	3 hr
Aug 16, 5:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance	3 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.