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Flash Flood Warning 278, NWS Albuquerque, NM

November 2, 2024Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Nov 2, 2024, 10:05 AM MDT for Roosevelt 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: Nov 2, 2024, 10:05 AM MDT (16:05 UTC)
Expired: Nov 2, 2024, 1:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 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: 753 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.2

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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 Nov 2, 5:30 AM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 2, 5:30 AM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 2, 5:02 AM MDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 2, 5:32 AM MDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 2, 9:40 AM MDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 2, 9:46 AM MDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 2, 9:53 AM MDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 2, 9:55 AM MDT, 10 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
Nov 1, 9:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		26 min
Nov 1, 9:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	32 min
Nov 1, 9:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	29 min
Nov 1, 9:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	35 min
Nov 1, 10:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	33 min
Nov 1, 10:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves	48 min
Nov 1, 11:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	30 min
Nov 1, 11:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	16 min
Nov 1, 11:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	31 min
Nov 1, 11:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	37 min
Nov 1, 11:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ABQ	Chaves	46 min
Nov 1, 11:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	30 min
Nov 1, 11:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		26 min
Nov 1, 11:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	34 min
Nov 2, 12:06 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, Roosevelt	3 hr
Nov 2, 12:23 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		37 min
Nov 2, 12:25 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	35 min
Nov 2, 12:28 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	32 min
Nov 2, 12:31 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	44 min
Nov 2, 12:35 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	21 min
Nov 2, 12:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	44 min
Nov 2, 12:49 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	41 min
Nov 2, 1:07 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry	5 hr
Nov 2, 1:26 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	49 min
Nov 2, 1:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	46 min
Nov 2, 1:49 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	26 min
Nov 2, 1:54 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	21 min
Nov 2, 2:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	32 min
Nov 2, 2:14 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	46 min
Nov 2, 2:23 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, Roosevelt	5 hr
Nov 2, 2:52 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	38 min
Nov 2, 3:08 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		37 min
Nov 2, 3:26 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	25 min
Nov 2, 3:44 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr
Nov 2, 3:49 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	41 min
Nov 2, 3:54 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		36 min
Nov 2, 4:28 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	32 min
Nov 2, 5:27 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	18 min
Nov 2, 5:32 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	43 min
Nov 2, 9:27 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr
Nov 2, 11:59 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	22 hr
Nov 2, 1:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	46 min
Nov 2, 1:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	25 min
Nov 2, 1:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Curry	23 min
Nov 2, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	35 min
Nov 2, 2:44 PM MDT	Winter Storm Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos and 1 more	24 hr
Nov 2, 3:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	31 min

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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.