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Flash Flood Warning 155, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 1, 2022San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2022, 12:54 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: Aug 1, 2022, 12:54 PM MDT (18:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2022, 4:00 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 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 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: 227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3308 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 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 Aug 1, 11:23 AM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 11:23 AM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 1, 11:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1135 AM MDT MON AUG 1 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0800 PM     FLASH FLOOD      3 WNW EL PORVENIR       35.70N 105.42W
07/29/2022                   SAN MIGUEL         NM   OTHER FEDERAL

            DELAYED REPORT OF FLASH FLOOD/DEBRIS FLOW
            WITH ROCK SLIDE ON COUNTY ROAD 65 NEAR E.V.
            CAMPGROUND. 3 PEOPLE RESCUED FROM FLOODING
            IN THIS AREA.

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 6:08 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Socorro	4 hr
Jul 31, 6:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Taos	26 min
Jul 31, 6:36 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	3 hr
Jul 31, 6:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	33 min
Jul 31, 7:24 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 31, 7:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	29 min
Jul 31, 7:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 31, 9:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 1, 2:34 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Catron, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba and 5 more	18 hr
Aug 1, 12:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	4 hr
Aug 1, 12:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 1, 1:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 1, 2:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	34 min
Aug 1, 3:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	29 min
Aug 1, 3:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	116 min
Aug 1, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	32 min
Aug 1, 4:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Aug 1, 4:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 1, 4:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 1, 4:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Aug 1, 5:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	29 min
Aug 1, 5:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe	10 min
Aug 1, 5:12 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe	3 hr
Aug 1, 5:21 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	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.