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Flash Flood Warning 249, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 22, 2022McKinley County, Rio Arriba County, Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 22, 2022, 3:52 PM MDT for McKinley County, Rio Arriba County, 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: Sep 22, 2022, 3:52 PM MDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Sep 22, 2022, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

Counties McKinley County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Sandoval County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 417 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: 223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 22, 3:23 PM MDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 3:23 PM MDT, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 22, 2:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 22, 3:11 PM MDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 22, 3:20 PM MDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 22, 3:41 PM MDT, 11 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 22, 12:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan	3 hr
Sep 22, 1:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	2 hr
Sep 22, 2:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval	104 min
Sep 22, 2:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola	3 hr
Sep 22, 3:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	49 min
Sep 22, 3:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	3 hr
Sep 22, 3:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	34 min
Sep 22, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	32 min
Sep 22, 4:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	37 min
Sep 22, 4:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	118 min
Sep 22, 4:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, McKinley	3 hr
Sep 22, 5:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		31 min
Sep 22, 5:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	99 min
Sep 22, 5:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Sandoval	3 hr
Sep 22, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	31 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.