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Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 21, 2024San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2024, 2:01 PM MDT for San Miguel 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: Jun 21, 2024, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2024, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 5 hr
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 20:02 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 438 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: 50 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 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 Jun 21, 12:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 12:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 1:57 PM MDT, 4 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
Jun 20, 8:05 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	8 hr
Jun 20, 9:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Jun 20, 9:31 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Rio Arriba	6 hr
Jun 21, 4:14 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos and 10 more	26 hr
Jun 21, 8:15 AM MDT	River Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	26 hr
Jun 21, 11:29 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Lincoln	6 hr
Jun 21, 1:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	33 min
Jun 21, 2:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	19 min
Jun 21, 2:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	41 min
Jun 21, 2:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	53 min
Jun 21, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	47 min
Jun 21, 3:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	3 hr
Jun 21, 3:19 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	3 hr
Jun 21, 3:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola	15 min
Jun 21, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	46 min
Jun 21, 3:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	38 min
Jun 21, 3:36 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	ABQ	Cibola	15 hr
Jun 21, 4:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	45 min
Jun 21, 4:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	17 min
Jun 21, 4:31 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	10 hr
Jun 21, 4:32 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jun 21, 4:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		26 min
Jun 21, 4:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	41 min
Jun 21, 5:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	102 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.