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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 25, 2023Mora County, San Miguel County, Taos County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2023, 12:45 PM MDT for Mora County, San Miguel County, Taos County, New Mexico. It was in force for 4 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 25, 2023, 12:45 PM MDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2023, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

Counties Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Taos County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 322 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: 1434 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 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 25, 11:33 AM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 11:33 AM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 10:39 AM MDT, 2 hours 6 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
May 24, 6:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Quay	18 min
May 24, 6:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	58 min
May 24, 6:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Quay	3 hr
May 24, 6:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Union	2 hr
May 24, 6:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, San Miguel	39 min
May 24, 6:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	45 min
May 24, 6:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Quay	3 hr
May 24, 6:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ABQ	Curry, Quay	29 min
May 24, 7:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	53 min
May 24, 7:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	ABQ	Curry	46 min
May 24, 7:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Quay	3 hr
May 24, 8:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	55 min
May 24, 8:18 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	3 hr
May 24, 9:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Roosevelt	41 min
May 24, 9:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	61 min
May 24, 9:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	30 min
May 24, 9:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt	26 min
May 24, 9:56 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	3 hr
May 24, 10:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt	62 min
May 24, 10:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Roosevelt	59 min
May 24, 10:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt	3 hr
May 24, 11:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	3 hr
May 24, 11:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	3 hr
May 24, 11:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt	61 min
May 25, 12:14 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	61 min
May 25, 12:17 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	118 min
May 25, 12:54 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	3 hr
May 25, 1:11 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	34 min
May 25, 1:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	38 min
May 25, 2:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	31 min
May 25, 2:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	32 min
May 25, 4:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	36 min
May 25, 4:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	35 min
May 25, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	40 min
May 25, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	30 min
May 25, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	27 min
May 25, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	48 min
May 25, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	61 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.