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Flash Flood Warning 245, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 13, 2022, 4:25 PM MDT for Chaves 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 13, 2022, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 13, 2022, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Chaves County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 13, 3:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 3:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 12, 6:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Miguel | 33 min |
| Sep 12, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 25 min |
| Sep 12, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 63 min |
| Sep 12, 7:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Harding | 24 min |
| Sep 12, 7:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel | 42 min |
| Sep 12, 7:31 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | San Miguel | 119 min |
| Sep 12, 8:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 9:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 28 min | |
| Sep 13, 12:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:14 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, McKinley | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 3:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 49 min |
| Sep 13, 3:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Torrance | 3 hr |
| Sep 13, 4:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | De Baca | 24 min |
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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.