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Flash Flood Warning 138, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 17, 2024Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2024, 7:07 PM MDT for Lincoln 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 17, 2024, 7:07 PM MDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2024, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3466 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -9 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 Jul 17, 5:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 5:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:42 PM MDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
142 PM MDT Wed Jul 17 2024

NMZ212-214-172015-
Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains-Glorieta Mesa Including Glorieta
Pass-
142 PM MDT Wed Jul 17 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WEST CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL AND EAST
CENTRAL SANTA FE COUNTIES THROUGH 215 PM MDT...

At 142 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Glorieta, or 13 miles southeast of Santa Fe. This storm was nearly
stationary.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and half inch hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Pecos, Upper Colonias, Rowe, Glorieta, and Lower Colonias.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 25 between Mile Markers 293 and 311.
 State Road 63 between Mile Markers 0 and 10.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If threatening weather approaches your area, take shelter in a sturdy
building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3557 10555 3554 10557 3551 10557 3543 10566
      3553 10585 3555 10586 3569 10578
TIME...MOT...LOC 1942Z 319DEG 3KT 3558 10574

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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Local storm report, Jul 17, 3:25 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:37 PM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 17, 7:03 PM MDT, 4 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 17, 7:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	3 hr
Jul 18, 12:17 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	28 min
Jul 18, 12:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	31 min
Jul 18, 3:13 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	32 min
Jul 18, 3:49 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	26 min
Jul 18, 1:33 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	7 hr
Jul 18, 1:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	32 min
Jul 18, 2:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	26 min
Jul 18, 2:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	51 min
Jul 18, 2:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 18, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Taos	23 min
Jul 18, 2:24 PM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba and 7 more	36 hr
Jul 18, 2:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jul 18, 2:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	33 min
Jul 18, 3:14 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	5 hr
Jul 18, 3:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Socorro	3 hr
Jul 18, 4:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	28 min
Jul 18, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	57 min
Jul 18, 4:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	4 hr
Jul 18, 4:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	30 min
Jul 18, 5:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	30 min
Jul 18, 5:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	28 min
Jul 18, 5:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 18, 5:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		36 min
Jul 18, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Torrance	60 min
Jul 18, 5:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	29 min
Jul 18, 5:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe	5 min
Jul 18, 5:29 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 18, 5:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	45 min
Jul 18, 5:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr

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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.