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Flash Flood Warning 224, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 21, 2022Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 2022, 4:21 PM MDT for Sandoval 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 21, 2022, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 2022, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 409 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: 130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1207 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 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 21, 3:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 3:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 21, 2:24 PM MDT, 1 hour 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
Aug 20, 6:00 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	8 hr
Aug 20, 6:12 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	3 hr
Aug 20, 7:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		28 min
Aug 20, 7:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	3 hr
Aug 20, 7:41 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	41 hr
Aug 20, 7:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	12 hr
Aug 20, 8:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	92 min
Aug 20, 9:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	114 min
Aug 20, 9:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	3 hr
Aug 21, 2:12 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 3 more	20 hr
Aug 21, 1:31 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	5 days
Aug 21, 3:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	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.