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Flash Flood Warning 107, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 26, 2022Cibola County, Valencia County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2022, 3:06 PM MST for Cibola County, Valencia County, New Mexico. It was in force for 105 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 2022, 3:06 PM MST (22:06 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2022, 4:51 PM MST
In force: 105 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cibola County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 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 Jul 26, 1:39 PM MST, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 1:39 PM MST, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 1:48 PM MST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:13 PM MST, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:17 PM MST, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:30 PM MST, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:35 PM MST, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 2:55 PM MST, 11 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
Jul 25, 5:07 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	4 hr
Jul 25, 5:15 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	2 hr
Jul 25, 5:55 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	3 hr
Jul 25, 6:09 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	36 min
Jul 25, 6:22 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	113 min
Jul 25, 6:33 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	4 hr
Jul 25, 7:02 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 25, 7:48 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 25, 7:55 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr
Jul 25, 8:40 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	3 hr
Jul 26, 1:01 AM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 26, 1:29 AM MST	Flood Watch	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley and 8 more	22 hr
Jul 26, 10:33 AM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	5 hr
Jul 26, 11:22 AM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval	9 min
Jul 26, 11:31 AM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 26, 11:35 AM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	4 hr
Jul 26, 12:12 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 26, 12:14 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 26, 12:17 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	28 min
Jul 26, 12:22 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 26, 12:34 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 26, 12:40 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	35 min
Jul 26, 12:42 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	33 min
Jul 26, 12:44 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	31 min
Jul 26, 12:46 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jul 26, 12:49 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 26, 12:50 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	25 min
Jul 26, 12:52 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 26, 1:01 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 26, 1:10 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	3 hr
Jul 26, 1:13 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	32 min
Jul 26, 1:29 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	31 min
Jul 26, 1:34 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	4 hr
Jul 26, 1:37 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	3 hr
Jul 26, 1:38 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	37 min
Jul 26, 1:44 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Socorro	3 hr
Jul 26, 1:48 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	27 min
Jul 26, 2:03 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 26, 2:13 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		17 min
Jul 26, 2:16 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan	3 hr
Jul 26, 2:17 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	13 min
Jul 26, 2:25 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 26, 2:30 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	15 min
Jul 26, 2:35 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, Socorro, Valencia	31 min
Jul 26, 2:35 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	25 min
Jul 26, 2:54 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Union	3 hr
Jul 26, 2:55 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	20 min
Jul 26, 3:19 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 26, 3:22 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 26, 3:24 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	3 hr
Jul 26, 3:48 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Sandoval	2 hr
Jul 26, 3:56 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola	2 hr
Jul 26, 4:18 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	117 min
Jul 26, 4:19 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	116 min
Jul 26, 4:26 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 26, 4:30 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 26, 4:31 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	3 hr

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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.