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Flash Flood Warning 236, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 11, 2022Catron County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 11, 2022, 1:38 PM MDT for Catron 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: Sep 11, 2022, 1:38 PM MDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired: Sep 11, 2022, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Catron County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 1221 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 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 Sep 11, 11:21 AM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 11:21 AM MDT, 2 hours 17 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
Sep 10, 6:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	37 min
Sep 10, 8:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		25 min
Sep 11, 12:10 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Quay	2 hr
Sep 11, 7:22 AM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance	3 hr
Sep 11, 1:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	3 hr
Sep 11, 2:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Socorro	3 hr
Sep 11, 2:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		31 min
Sep 11, 2:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	3 hr
Sep 11, 3:05 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	4 hr
Sep 11, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	33 min
Sep 11, 3:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Catron	25 min
Sep 11, 3:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	3 hr
Sep 11, 3:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	3 hr
Sep 11, 3:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		31 min
Sep 11, 4:08 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	3 hr
Sep 11, 4:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Sep 11, 5:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	14 min
Sep 11, 5:43 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Sep 11, 5:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2022 Every flash flood warning in 2022

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.