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Flash Flood Warning 270, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 20, 2024Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Oct 20, 2024, 7:19 PM MDT for Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 5 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, 7:19 PM MDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Oct 21, 2024, 12:00 AM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 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 Oct 20, 6:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 20, 6:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 20, 5:55 PM MDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 20, 6:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 20, 6:25 PM MDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 20, 6:36 PM MDT, 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 20, 6:44 PM MDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 20, 7:07 PM MDT, 12 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 20, 6:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	41 min
Oct 20, 6:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	6 hr
Oct 20, 6:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	51 min
Oct 20, 6:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	35 min
Oct 20, 6:31 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	5 hr
Oct 20, 6:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos, Taos	24 min
Oct 20, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	49 min
Oct 20, 6:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	46 min
Oct 20, 6:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	27 min
Oct 20, 7:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	23 min
Oct 20, 7:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	44 min
Oct 20, 7:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	24 min
Oct 20, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	31 min
Oct 20, 7:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	30 min
Oct 20, 7:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	25 min
Oct 20, 7:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	34 min
Oct 20, 7:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	31 min
Oct 20, 8:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	28 min
Oct 20, 8:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	34 min
Oct 20, 8:22 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	4 hr
Oct 20, 8:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	35 min
Oct 20, 8:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	33 min
Oct 20, 8:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	46 min
Oct 20, 8:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Roosevelt	39 min
Oct 20, 8:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	35 min
Oct 20, 8:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca	3 hr
Oct 20, 9:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	23 min
Oct 20, 9:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	48 min
Oct 20, 9:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	30 min
Oct 20, 9:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	33 min
Oct 20, 9:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay	44 min
Oct 20, 9:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	22 min
Oct 20, 9:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Oct 20, 10:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	46 min
Oct 20, 10:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		34 min
Oct 20, 10:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Quay	3 hr
Oct 20, 10:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	46 min
Oct 20, 11:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	31 min
Oct 21, 1:16 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	29 min
Oct 21, 6:25 AM MDT	River Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	8 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.