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Flash Flood Warning 265, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 20, 2024Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Oct 20, 2024, 12:28 AM MDT for Chaves 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: Oct 20, 2024, 12:28 AM MDT (06:28 UTC)
Expired: Oct 20, 2024, 3:30 AM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Emergency: Flash flood emergency
Damage threat: Catastrophic
Flood severity: None

County Chaves County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 267 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: 179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2151 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.7

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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 Oct 19, 11:57 PM MDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 11:57 PM MDT, 31 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 19, 8:47 PM MDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 19, 8:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 19, 9:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 19, 9:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 19, 10:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Oct 20, 12:10 AM MDT, 18 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
Oct 19, 6:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	21 min
Oct 19, 6:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	29 min
Oct 19, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	42 min
Oct 19, 6:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	41 min
Oct 19, 7:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	11 min
Oct 19, 7:22 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr
Oct 19, 7:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	5 hr
Oct 19, 7:28 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyConsiderable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves	5 hr
Oct 19, 7:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	36 min
Oct 19, 9:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		24 min
Oct 19, 10:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	29 min
Oct 19, 11:11 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves	5 hr
Oct 20, 12:03 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt	4 hr
Oct 20, 12:20 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	21 hr
Oct 20, 12:42 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	15 hr
Oct 20, 1:11 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	3 hr
Oct 20, 3:30 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	15 hr
Oct 20, 6:06 AM MDT	River Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	9 hr
Oct 20, 6:16 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe	8 hr
Oct 20, 9:44 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	21 hr
Oct 20, 12:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	31 min
Oct 20, 12:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	3 hr
Oct 20, 1:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	28 min
Oct 20, 1:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		52 min
Oct 20, 2:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	33 min
Oct 20, 2:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	26 min
Oct 20, 3:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	28 min
Oct 20, 3:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	47 min
Oct 20, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	32 min
Oct 20, 4:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	6 hr
Oct 20, 4:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora	25 min
Oct 20, 4:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	40 min
Oct 20, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Colfax	20 min
Oct 20, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	26 min
Oct 20, 4:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	4 hr
Oct 20, 5:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	38 min
Oct 20, 5:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	35 min
Oct 20, 5:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	45 min
Oct 20, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	23 min
Oct 20, 5:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	26 min
Oct 20, 5:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	35 min
Oct 20, 5:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABQ	Mora, Taos	16 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.