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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 1, 2022Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2022, 4:43 PM MDT for Colfax County, Union 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: Jul 1, 2022, 4:43 PM MDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2022, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 2597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 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 Jul 1, 2:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 2:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 1, 2:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 3:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 1, 3:11 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 1, 4:11 PM MDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
411 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0310 PM     FLASH FLOOD      1 N TIERRA MONTE        35.87N 105.35W
07/01/2022                   MORA               NM   NWS EMPLOYEE

            WATER AND DEBRIS OVER HIGHWAY 94. TIME
            ESTIMATED.

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Local storm report, Jul 1, 4:15 PM MDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
415 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0315 PM     FLASH FLOOD      2 WSW TIERRA MONTE      35.85N 105.38W
07/01/2022                   SAN MIGUEL         NM   PUBLIC

            WIDESPREAD FLOODING OBSERVED ALONG HIGHWAY
            105 APPROXIMATELY 1/2 MILE WEST OF 94
            JUNCTION. DRAINAGES WELL OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
            BARN FLOODED.

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Local storm report, Jul 1, 4:25 PM MDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
425 PM MDT FRI JUL 1 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0345 PM     FLASH FLOOD      1 NNE ROCIADA           35.85N 105.42W
07/01/2022                   SAN MIGUEL         NM   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            HIGHWAY 105 CLOSED AT MM 3.8 DUE TO FLASH
            FLOODING.

&&

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 6:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		35 min
Jun 30, 7:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	5 hr
Jul 1, 12:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, Taos	4 hr
Jul 1, 12:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Jul 1, 1:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	31 min
Jul 1, 1:19 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	6 hr
Jul 1, 1:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 1, 1:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	37 min
Jul 1, 2:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Jul 1, 2:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Jul 1, 3:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Union	3 hr
Jul 1, 4:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 1, 5:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 1, 5:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 1, 5:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	3 hr

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.