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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 5, 2022Mora County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 5, 2022, 1:35 PM MDT for Mora County, San Miguel 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 5, 2022, 1:35 PM MDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2022, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

Counties Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 69 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 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 5, 10:51 AM MDT, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 10:51 AM MDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:18 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
1218 PM MDT Tue Jul 5 2022

NMZ206-207-051845-
West Central Highlands-West Central Mountains-
1218 PM MDT Tue Jul 5 2022

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL CIBOLA
AND CENTRAL MCKINLEY COUNTIES THROUGH 1245 PM MDT...

At 1218 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles west of Milan, or 10 miles west of Grants, moving northeast at
5 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Grants and Milan.

This includes Interstate 40 between Mile Markers 65 and 84.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If threatening weather approaches your area, take shelter in a sturdy
building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3508 10802 3522 10815 3542 10797 3516 10774
TIME...MOT...LOC 1818Z 232DEG 5KT 3520 10802

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 7:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 4, 8:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	3 hr
Jul 5, 12:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	27 min
Jul 5, 1:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	111 min
Jul 5, 1:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 5, 2:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	37 min
Jul 5, 2:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		26 min
Jul 5, 2:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	24 min
Jul 5, 2:48 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, Taos	3 hr
Jul 5, 3:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	113 min
Jul 5, 3:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	115 min
Jul 5, 3:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe	2 hr
Jul 5, 3:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	35 min
Jul 5, 4:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	114 min
Jul 5, 4:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	2 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.