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Flash Flood Warning 119, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 27, 2022San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2022, 3:21 PM MDT for San Miguel 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 2022, 3:21 PM MDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2022, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 95 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -423 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2466 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 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 27, 2:47 PM MDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 2:47 PM MDT, 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 1:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 2:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 27, 2:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 2:40 PM MDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:10 PM MDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 27, 3:12 PM MDT, 9 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 26, 6:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	117 min
Jul 26, 6:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval, San Miguel, Santa Fe	113 min
Jul 26, 6:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, San Juan	118 min
Jul 26, 6:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	117 min
Jul 26, 6:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 26, 7:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	112 min
Jul 26, 7:13 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 26, 7:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 26, 7:42 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 26, 8:16 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 26, 8:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 27, 2:18 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos and 10 more	22 hr
Jul 27, 11:53 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	5 hr
Jul 27, 12:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 27, 12:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	3 hr
Jul 27, 12:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	3 hr
Jul 27, 1:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Jul 27, 1:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	25 min
Jul 27, 1:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 27, 1:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	28 min
Jul 27, 2:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 27, 2:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	25 min
Jul 27, 2:13 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 27, 2:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 27, 2:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	35 min
Jul 27, 2:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 27, 3:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		35 min
Jul 27, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	33 min
Jul 27, 3:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 27, 3:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	30 min
Jul 27, 3:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 27, 4:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	34 min
Jul 27, 4:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, San Juan	3 hr
Jul 27, 4:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 27, 4:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 27, 4:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	28 min
Jul 27, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	26 min
Jul 27, 4:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 27, 5:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	35 min
Jul 27, 5:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 27, 5:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 27, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	37 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.