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Flash Flood Warning 186, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 6, 20226 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 6, 2022, 12:16 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 4 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 6, 2022, 12:16 PM MDT (18:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2022, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 164 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 429 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 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 6, 12:11 PM MDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 12:11 PM MDT, 5 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
Aug 5, 6:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	117 min
Aug 6, 12:57 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Catron, Colfax, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 4 more	23 hr
Aug 6, 11:43 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Torrance, Valencia	3 hr
Aug 6, 12:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola	3 hr
Aug 6, 1:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Torrance	3 hr
Aug 6, 1:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Aug 6, 1:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	3 hr
Aug 6, 1:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance	3 hr
Aug 6, 2:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	2 hr
Aug 6, 2:16 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	4 hr
Aug 6, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	35 min
Aug 6, 2:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	41 min
Aug 6, 2:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Socorro	3 hr
Aug 6, 2:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, Socorro, Valencia	3 hr
Aug 6, 2:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	24 min
Aug 6, 3:14 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 6, 3:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Aug 6, 3:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	2 hr
Aug 6, 3:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	33 min
Aug 6, 4:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	36 min
Aug 6, 4:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	112 min
Aug 6, 4:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	2 hr
Aug 6, 4:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	2 hr
Aug 6, 5:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 6, 5:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	3 hr
Aug 6, 5:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	35 min
Aug 6, 5:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	74 min

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.