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Areal Flood Advisory 577, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 29, 2021Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this areal flood advisory at Aug 29, 2021, 2:08 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 2021, 2:08 PM MDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2021, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -291 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2015 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 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 29, 11:35 AM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 29, 11:35 AM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes 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 28, 6:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 28, 6:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	3 hr
Aug 28, 7:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 29, 3:21 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Colfax, Guadalupe, Lincoln and 9 more	25 hr
Aug 29, 1:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt	3 hr
Aug 29, 3:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Aug 29, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	32 min
Aug 29, 4:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 29, 5:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	29 min
Aug 29, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	32 min
Aug 29, 5:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	2 hr
Aug 29, 5:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	30 min

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in New Mexico, 2021 Every areal flood advisory in 2021

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.