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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 24, 2023Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2023, 5:49 PM MDT for Quay 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: May 24, 2023, 5:49 PM MDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2023, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: -262 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 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 May 24, 3:42 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:42 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 5:49 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
549 PM MDT WED MAY 24 2023

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

0541 PM     HAIL             1 SW SAN JON            35.11N 103.34W
05/24/2023  U1.00 INCH       QUAY               NM   PUBLIC

            REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.).

0541 PM     HAIL             1 W SAN JON             35.11N 103.35W
05/24/2023  U1.00 INCH       QUAY               NM   PUBLIC

            REPORT FROM MPING: QUARTER (1.00 IN.).

0542 PM     HAIL             1 S SAN JON             35.10N 103.33W
05/24/2023  U0.75 INCH       QUAY               NM   PUBLIC

            REPORT FROM MPING: DIME (0.75 IN.).

0546 PM     HAIL             5 NW SEDAN              36.19N 103.19W
05/24/2023  U0.75 INCH       UNION              NM   PUBLIC

            REPORT FROM MPING: DIME (0.75 IN.).

&&

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 1:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	4 hr
May 24, 2:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	64 min
May 24, 2:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Colfax, Union	46 min
May 24, 2:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
May 24, 2:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Union	3 hr
May 24, 3:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	66 min
May 24, 3:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
May 24, 3:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	55 min
May 24, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	56 min
May 24, 4:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	115 min
May 24, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	57 min
May 24, 5:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	3 hr
May 24, 5:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Curry, Quay, San Miguel	58 min
May 24, 5:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	3 hr
May 24, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Harding, Union	56 min
May 24, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Harding, Union	57 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.