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Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 6, 2023Catron County, Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 6, 2023, 5:25 PM MDT for Catron County, Socorro 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: Jun 6, 2023, 5:25 PM MDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2023, 8:30 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Catron County, NM, Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 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 Jun 6, 3:06 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:06 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:27 PM MDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 6, 4:46 PM MDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:46 PM MDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:49 PM MDT, 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 6, 4:55 PM MDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:23 PM MDT, 2 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
Jun 5, 6:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	30 min
Jun 5, 6:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	58 min
Jun 5, 6:17 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	4 hr
Jun 5, 6:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	29 min
Jun 5, 8:48 PM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 3 more	27 hr
Jun 5, 8:53 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	2 hr
Jun 6, 12:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Catron	36 min
Jun 6, 1:29 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	3 hr
Jun 6, 1:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 6, 1:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Catron	40 min
Jun 6, 2:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	38 min
Jun 6, 2:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	44 min
Jun 6, 2:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	32 min
Jun 6, 2:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	2 hr
Jun 6, 2:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		42 min
Jun 6, 2:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	65 min
Jun 6, 3:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Catron	26 min
Jun 6, 3:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	37 min
Jun 6, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Catron	47 min
Jun 6, 3:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	35 min
Jun 6, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	39 min
Jun 6, 3:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Jun 6, 3:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	28 min
Jun 6, 3:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		37 min
Jun 6, 4:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	32 min
Jun 6, 4:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	38 min
Jun 6, 4:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	33 min
Jun 6, 4:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	44 min
Jun 6, 4:34 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	4 hr
Jun 6, 4:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		29 min
Jun 6, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	26 min
Jun 6, 5:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	117 min
Jun 6, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	49 min
Jun 6, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	47 min
Jun 6, 5:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	61 min
Jun 6, 5:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	37 min
Jun 6, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	41 min
Jun 6, 5:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jun 6, 5:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	2 hr
Jun 6, 5:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	34 min
Jun 6, 5:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	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.