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Flash Flood Warning 243, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 12, 2022Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 12, 2022, 3:21 PM MDT for Socorro 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 12, 2022, 3:21 PM MDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 12, 2022, 6:03 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 201 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1396 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 12, 2:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 2:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 12, 1:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 12, 3:03 PM MDT, 18 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 11, 6:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	2 hr
Sep 11, 6:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	24 min
Sep 11, 7:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	25 min
Sep 11, 7:11 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Sep 11, 7:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	24 min
Sep 11, 7:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	37 min
Sep 11, 8:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval, Santa Fe	2 hr
Sep 11, 8:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	31 min
Sep 12, 2:07 PM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln and 11 more	34 hr
Sep 12, 2:32 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Sep 12, 2:39 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Sep 12, 3:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	27 min
Sep 12, 3:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	2 hr
Sep 12, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	26 min
Sep 12, 3:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	28 min
Sep 12, 3:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	27 min
Sep 12, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	22 min
Sep 12, 4:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Union	2 hr
Sep 12, 4:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	31 min
Sep 12, 4:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	33 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.