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Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 28, 2022Bernalillo County, Torrance County, Valencia County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2022, 12:12 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, Torrance County, Valencia 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 28, 2022, 12:12 PM MDT (18:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2022, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 31 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: 36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -245 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3400 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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 28, 11:15 AM MDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 11:15 AM MDT, 57 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 27, 6:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	3 hr
Jul 27, 6:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 27, 8:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Quay	3 hr
Jul 28, 1:52 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding and 14 more	70 hr
Jul 28, 11:23 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe	2 hr
Jul 28, 11:52 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Torrance, Valencia	113 min
Jul 28, 12:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	30 min
Jul 28, 12:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 28, 1:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 28, 1:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	2 hr
Jul 28, 1:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	114 min
Jul 28, 1:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 28, 1:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	31 min
Jul 28, 2:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Socorro	3 hr
Jul 28, 2:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		28 min
Jul 28, 2:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	37 min
Jul 28, 2:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	29 min
Jul 28, 2:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt	2 hr
Jul 28, 2:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	45 min
Jul 28, 3:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 28, 3:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	37 min
Jul 28, 3:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	28 min
Jul 28, 3:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Mora	3 hr
Jul 28, 3:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 28, 3:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 28, 4:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	28 min
Jul 28, 4:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro, Torrance, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 28, 4:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	34 min
Jul 28, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	46 min
Jul 28, 4:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	33 min
Jul 28, 4:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 28, 4:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	36 min
Jul 28, 4:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	29 min
Jul 28, 5:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 28, 5:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 28, 5:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 28, 5:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 28, 5:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	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.