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Flood Watch 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flood watch at Jul 20, 2023, 10:00 AM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Jul 21, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 2023, 10:00 AM MDT (16:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 21, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2023, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -264 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jul 19, 5:31 PM MDT, 16 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 5:31 PM MDT, 16 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 25 min |
| Jul 20, 3:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 51 min |
| Jul 20, 3:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 27 min |
| Jul 20, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 24 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.