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Flash Flood Warning 160, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 21, 2024Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2024, 2:50 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 115 min. 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 21, 2024, 2:50 PM MDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2024, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Unknown

County Roosevelt County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 259 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: 183 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1280 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 21, 11:47 AM MDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 11:47 AM MDT, 3 hours 3 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 20, 6:02 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	2 hr
Jul 20, 6:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	23 min
Jul 20, 6:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 20, 7:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Valencia	3 hr
Jul 20, 7:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	37 min
Jul 20, 8:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca	3 hr
Jul 21, 3:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jul 21, 3:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		28 min
Jul 21, 3:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	45 min
Jul 21, 3:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		42 min
Jul 21, 3:35 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Jul 21, 3:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	47 min
Jul 21, 3:58 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 21, 4:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 21, 4:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	24 min
Jul 21, 5:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	25 min
Jul 21, 5:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	22 min
Jul 21, 5:36 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Torrance, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 21, 5:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Jul 21, 5:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	3 hr
Jul 21, 5:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	26 min
Jul 21, 5:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	24 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2024 Every flash flood warning in 2024

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.