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Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 15, 2021Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2021, 2:54 PM MDT for Socorro County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 15, 2021, 2:54 PM MDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2021, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

371 
WGUS55 KABQ 152054
FFWABQ
NMC053-160000-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0033.210715T2054Z-210716T0000Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
254 PM MDT Thu Jul 15 2021

The National Weather Service in Albuquerque has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
  The Vics Peak Burn Scar in...
  Southwestern Socorro County in central New Mexico...

* Until 600 PM MDT.

* At 254 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing 
  heavy rain over the Vics Peak Burn Scar. Between 0.50 and 1.00 
  inch of rain has fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 0.50 to 
  0.75 inches in 1 hour. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to 
  begin shortly.

Excessive rainfall over the burn scar will impact Springtime 
Campground, San Mateo Creek, Rock Springs Canyon, and other 
drainages that flow into Alamosa Creek and Indian Creek as well as 
Socorro County Road 033 and State Road 1 between Mile Marker 11 and 
18. The debris flow can consist of rock, mud, vegetation and other 
loose materials.

  HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms in and around
           the Vics Peak Burn Scar.

  SOURCE...Radar.

  IMPACT...Flooding of areas in and around the Vics Peak Burn
           Scar.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
  mainly rural areas of Southwestern Socorro County

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

This will impact the Vics Peak Wildfire Burn Scar including but not 
limited to Springtime Campground, San Mateo Creek, Rock Springs 
Canyon and other drainages that flow into Alamosa Creek and Indian 
Creek as well as Socorro County Road 033 and State Road 1 between 
Mile Marker 11 and 18.

Do not camp along streams and rivers. Remain alert when hiking in 
steep, narrow canyons. Know where you are relative to low spots and 
drainages.

&&

LAT...LON 3370 10739 3360 10734 3356 10718 3348 10723
      3348 10732 3348 10739 3348 10742 3348 10743
      3348 10744 3348 10747 3348 10749 3348 10753
      3360 10750 3370 10750

FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
EXPECTED RAINFALL...0.5-0.75 INCHES IN 1 HOUR

$$

DPorter

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 6:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	24 min
Jul 14, 7:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola	3 hr
Jul 14, 7:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	2 hr
Jul 15, 12:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	2 hr
Jul 15, 1:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	33 min
Jul 15, 2:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	38 min
Jul 15, 2:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	31 min
Jul 15, 2:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	31 min
Jul 15, 2:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	81 min
Jul 15, 3:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	29 min
Jul 15, 3:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	23 min
Jul 15, 3:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.