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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 27, 2022Catron County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2022, 3:12 PM MDT for Catron County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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
Jun 27, 2022, 3:12 PM MDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2022, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
2 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 21:11 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 278 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 135 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
135 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1253 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 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 Jun 27, 2:42 PM MDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:42 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 7:03 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQMcKinley117 min
Jun 26, 11:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQChaves119 min
Jun 27, 10:06 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSan Miguel3 hr
Jun 27, 1:28 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCibola, McKinley2 hr
Jun 27, 2:21 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCibola3 hr
Jun 27, 4:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTorrance37 min
Jun 27, 5:22 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSocorro113 min
Jun 27, 5:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCibola35 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.