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Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 15, 2023Colfax County, Mora County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 2023, 4:04 PM MDT for Colfax County, Mora 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: Jul 15, 2023, 4:04 PM MDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2023, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 214 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 532 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -269 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Jul 15, 2:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:07 PM MDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:18 PM MDT, 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 3:56 PM MDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 15, 4:02 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
Jul 14, 6:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	60 min
Jul 14, 6:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	2 hr
Jul 14, 7:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	41 min
Jul 14, 7:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	51 min
Jul 14, 7:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	60 min
Jul 14, 8:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	46 min
Jul 14, 9:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	41 min
Jul 14, 10:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	32 min
Jul 14, 11:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	35 min
Jul 14, 11:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	45 min
Jul 15, 12:19 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Quay	3 hr
Jul 15, 12:50 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	23 min
Jul 15, 3:29 AM MDT	Heat Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan, Torrance and 1 more	17 hr
Jul 15, 2:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	28 min
Jul 15, 2:05 PM MDT	Heat Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan and 2 more	30 hr
Jul 15, 2:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	34 min
Jul 15, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	59 min
Jul 15, 2:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		32 min
Jul 15, 3:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	28 min
Jul 15, 3:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	38 min
Jul 15, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	47 min
Jul 15, 3:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	27 min
Jul 15, 3:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	40 min
Jul 15, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	61 min
Jul 15, 3:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	28 min
Jul 15, 3:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 15, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	65 min
Jul 15, 3:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		34 min
Jul 15, 3:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	34 min
Jul 15, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	59 min
Jul 15, 4:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	118 min
Jul 15, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	62 min
Jul 15, 4:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		28 min
Jul 15, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel, Torrance	64 min
Jul 15, 4:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jul 15, 5:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	54 min
Jul 15, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	29 min
Jul 15, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	65 min
Jul 15, 5:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	30 min
Jul 15, 5:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Colfax	65 min

Nearby

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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.