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Flash Flood Warning 102, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2023, 5:27 PM MDT for 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
- Aug 15, 2023, 5:27 PM MDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2023, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County San Miguel County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 438 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 15, 3:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 3:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 1:27 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 3 more | 19 hr |
| Aug 15, 2:28 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 25 min |
| Aug 15, 4:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 22 min |
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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.