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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 1, 2023Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 2023, 4:20 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 5 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
Jun 1, 2023, 4:20 PM MDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2023, 9:30 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Guadalupe County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2023-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 293 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2023-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1347 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 Jun 1, 3:28 PM MDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:28 PM MDT, 52 minutes before
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In the hours before

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 3:55 PM MDT, 25 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
355 PM MDT Thu Jun 1 2023

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

0330 PM     Hail             3 NNE Pastura           34.83N 104.93W
06/01/2023  E1.00 inch       Guadalupe          NM   Storm Chaser

            Hail covering street highway 219.

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Local storm report, Jun 1, 4:20 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
420 PM MDT Thu Jun 1 2023

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

0416 PM     Hail             1 E Pastura             34.78N 104.94W
06/01/2023  E1.00 inch       Guadalupe          NM   Storm Chaser

            Hail from 2nd storm, following same path as
            first one.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 6:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSanta Fe25 min
May 31, 6:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQHarding35 min
May 31, 6:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQRoosevelt23 min
May 31, 6:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQRoosevelt37 min
May 31, 6:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSanta Fe27 min
May 31, 6:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, De Baca46 min
May 31, 6:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt42 min
May 31, 6:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance51 min
May 31, 7:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca26 min
May 31, 7:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves50 min
May 31, 7:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt34 min
May 31, 7:28 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves, Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt5 hr
May 31, 7:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ36 min
May 31, 7:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca34 min
May 31, 8:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Roosevelt50 min
May 31, 8:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Miguel33 min
May 31, 8:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca29 min
May 31, 8:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Roosevelt24 min
May 31, 9:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt62 min
May 31, 11:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt45 min
May 31, 11:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatABQCurry, Quay, Roosevelt52 min
May 31, 11:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatABQCurry, Roosevelt46 min
May 31, 11:51 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQMora, San Miguel, Taos4 hr
Jun 1, 12:28 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves, Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt4 hr
Jun 1, 12:30 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca30 min
Jun 1, 1:16 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves34 min
Jun 1, 4:32 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQChaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt3 hr
Jun 1, 9:11 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCurry, Quay, Roosevelt2 hr
Jun 1, 12:05 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSandoval54 min
Jun 1, 12:08 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningABQCurry, Quay, Roosevelt8 min
Jun 1, 12:16 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry, Quay, Roosevelt3 hr
Jun 1, 12:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval, Santa Fe52 min
Jun 1, 1:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSanta Fe60 min
Jun 1, 1:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSanta Fe39 min
Jun 1, 1:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry52 min
Jun 1, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Torrance45 min
Jun 1, 2:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry48 min
Jun 1, 2:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatABQGuadalupe46 min
Jun 1, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe49 min
Jun 1, 4:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe46 min
Jun 1, 5:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe59 min
Jun 1, 5:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, San Miguel35 min
Jun 1, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe32 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.