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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 24, 2022Mora County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 24, 2022, 12:39 AM MDT for Mora 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 24, 2022, 12:39 AM MDT (06:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 2022, 3:45 AM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Mora County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:42 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 467 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: 0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 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 23, 11:44 PM MDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 11:44 PM MDT, 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 23, 6:44 PM MDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 7:08 PM MDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 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 23, 6:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	31 min
Jul 23, 7:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	37 min
Jul 23, 11:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	31 min
Jul 24, 3:49 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Catron, Colfax, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 4 more	17 hr
Jul 24, 12:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Taos	3 hr
Jul 24, 1:17 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, Taos	4 hr
Jul 24, 1:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Jul 24, 1:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	3 hr
Jul 24, 1:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	3 hr
Jul 24, 1:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	31 min
Jul 24, 2:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 24, 2:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 24, 3:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Jul 24, 3:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	30 min
Jul 24, 4:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	25 min
Jul 24, 4:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	3 hr
Jul 24, 5:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	3 hr

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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.