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Flash Flood Warning 180, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 27, 2024San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2024, 1:04 PM MDT for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 112 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 27, 2024, 1:04 PM MDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2024, 2:56 PM MDT
In force
112 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

County San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 2024-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 35 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 2024-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-276 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 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 27, 11:22 AM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 11:22 AM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 7:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSanta Fe37 min
Jul 26, 7:19 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSandoval, Santa Fe3 hr
Jul 26, 7:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQHarding3 hr
Jul 26, 8:21 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQBernalillo114 min
Jul 27, 2:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora27 min
Jul 27, 2:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora41 min
Jul 27, 4:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora28 min
Jul 27, 4:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro41 min
Jul 27, 4:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora, San Miguel39 min
Jul 27, 4:46 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSan Miguel4 hr
Jul 27, 5:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Miguel29 min
Jul 27, 5:28 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSocorro3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2024Every 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.