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Flash Flood Warning 225, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 22, 2022Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 2022, 12:10 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 22, 2022, 12:10 PM MDT (18:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2022, 3:15 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 18:10 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 425 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: 1217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 22, 11:45 AM MDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 11:45 AM MDT, 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 22, 10:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1035 AM MDT MON AUG 22 2022

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

0826 AM     FLOOD            5 S BITTER LAKE WILDLIF 33.39N 104.40W
08/22/2022                   CHAVES             NM   EMERGENCY MNGR

            KAREN SANDERS, CHAVES COUNTY EM, REPORTED
            WAIST HIGH WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS OF RIVER
            ROAD. A TRUCK GOT STUCK AND DEPUTIES HAD TO
            BE DEPLOYED TO RESCUE THE DRIVER.

&&

ANM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 21, 6:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 21, 6:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	3 hr
Aug 21, 11:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	61 min
Aug 22, 1:46 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Catron, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba and 5 more	20 hr
Aug 22, 11:45 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Aug 22, 12:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Socorro	3 hr
Aug 22, 12:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Aug 22, 12:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, San Juan	3 hr
Aug 22, 12:59 PM MDT	River Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	22 hr
Aug 22, 1:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Aug 22, 2:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 22, 2:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 22, 2:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 22, 3:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Aug 22, 3:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 22, 3:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 22, 4:21 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 22, 4:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Taos	3 hr
Aug 22, 4:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	11 min
Aug 22, 4:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Aug 22, 4:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 22, 5:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	87 min
Aug 22, 5:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 22, 5:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Santa Fe	3 hr
Aug 22, 5:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr

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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.