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Flash Flood Warning 161, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 21, 2024Mora County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2024, 3:00 PM MDT for 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 21, 2024, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

County Mora County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2024-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 137 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2024-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
137 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1118 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-16 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 21, 11:47 AM MDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 11:47 AM MDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 6:02 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval2 hr
Jul 20, 6:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia23 min
Jul 20, 6:46 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo, Valencia3 hr
Jul 20, 7:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQValencia3 hr
Jul 20, 7:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca37 min
Jul 20, 8:57 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca3 hr
Jul 21, 2:50 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQRoosevelt115 min
Jul 21, 3:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ28 min
Jul 21, 3:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan45 min
Jul 21, 3:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ42 min
Jul 21, 3:35 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQRio Arriba3 hr
Jul 21, 3:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Miguel47 min
Jul 21, 3:58 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSan Miguel3 hr
Jul 21, 4:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQHarding, Mora, San Miguel3 hr
Jul 21, 4:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQGuadalupe24 min
Jul 21, 5:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLincoln25 min
Jul 21, 5:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay22 min
Jul 21, 5:36 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo, Torrance, Valencia3 hr
Jul 21, 5:37 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQRio Arriba3 hr
Jul 21, 5:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQGuadalupe3 hr
Jul 21, 5:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay26 min
Jul 21, 5:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion24 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.