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Flash Flood Warning 139, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 30, 2022Cibola County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2022, 11:51 AM MST for Cibola 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 30, 2022, 11:51 AM MST (18:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2022, 2:36 PM MST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Cibola County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 348 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: 61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 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 30, 10:20 AM MST, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 10:20 AM MST, 1 hour 31 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 29, 5:02 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	28 min
Jul 29, 5:03 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	3 hr
Jul 29, 5:09 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	36 min
Jul 29, 5:18 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union	3 hr
Jul 29, 5:22 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	3 hr
Jul 29, 5:28 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	32 min
Jul 29, 5:39 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	36 min
Jul 29, 6:04 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel, Union	116 min
Jul 29, 6:07 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	2 hr
Jul 29, 6:29 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 29, 7:45 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay	3 hr
Jul 30, 10:43 AM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Socorro	3 hr
Jul 30, 10:56 AM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 30, 12:07 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	23 min
Jul 30, 12:39 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	36 min
Jul 30, 12:45 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Jul 30, 12:49 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 30, 1:11 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 30, 1:15 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	3 hr
Jul 30, 1:22 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 30, 1:27 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 30, 1:29 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	31 min
Jul 30, 1:51 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 30, 1:59 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 30, 2:03 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	27 min
Jul 30, 2:19 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Sandoval	4 hr
Jul 30, 2:27 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	33 min
Jul 30, 2:28 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	32 min
Jul 30, 2:48 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	117 min
Jul 30, 2:53 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	3 hr
Jul 30, 2:55 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	35 min
Jul 30, 3:02 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro, Torrance, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 30, 3:04 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	26 min
Jul 30, 3:09 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	21 min
Jul 30, 3:10 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	3 hr
Jul 30, 3:15 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	30 min
Jul 30, 3:18 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 30, 3:35 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	40 min
Jul 30, 3:39 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 30, 3:45 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	2 hr
Jul 30, 3:49 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	24 min
Jul 30, 3:52 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	38 min
Jul 30, 3:56 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	109 min
Jul 30, 4:14 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Socorro, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 30, 4:19 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	26 min
Jul 30, 4:33 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 30, 4:46 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 30, 4:53 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	3 hr

Nearby

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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.