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Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 11, 2022Colfax County, Harding County, Mora County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 11, 2022, 4:31 PM MDT for Colfax County, Harding County, Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 119 min. 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 11, 2022, 4:31 PM MDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2022, 6:30 PM MDT
In force: 119 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

Counties Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -397 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 4309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 11 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 11, 2:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 2:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 11, 2:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 3:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 3:51 PM MDT, 40 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
Jul 11, 1:54 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Miguel and 2 more	46 hr
Jul 11, 12:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	3 hr
Jul 11, 1:21 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Jul 11, 1:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 11, 1:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 11, 3:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	37 min
Jul 11, 3:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 11, 3:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	24 min
Jul 11, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	42 min
Jul 11, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	30 min
Jul 11, 5:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jul 11, 5:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 11, 5:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	23 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.