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Flash Flood Warning 215, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 17, 2022San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 17, 2022, 12:32 PM MDT for San Miguel County, 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 17, 2022, 12:32 PM MDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 2022, 4:30 PM MDT
In force
4 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 18:33 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 438 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 276 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
653 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
-41 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 17, 11:33 AM MDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 11:33 AM MDT, 59 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 6:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQColfax, Union3 hr
Aug 16, 6:46 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSandoval3 hr
Aug 16, 6:49 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Juan116 min
Aug 17, 12:00 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQColfax, Harding, Mora3 hr
Aug 17, 12:04 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQColfax, Union3 hr
Aug 17, 2:20 AM MDTFlood WatchABQColfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos and 1 more22 hr
Aug 17, 9:43 AM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQLincoln4 hr
Aug 17, 12:25 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQMora, San Miguel, Taos4 hr
Aug 17, 1:28 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSanta Fe3 hr
Aug 17, 1:54 PM MDTFlood WatchABQBernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry and 19 more3 days
Aug 17, 2:36 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQRio Arriba, Santa Fe114 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.