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Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 21, 2024McKinley County, San Juan County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 2024, 3:00 PM MDT for McKinley County, San Juan 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
Jun 21, 2024, 3:00 PM MDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties McKinley County, NM, San Juan County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 330 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2024-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 538 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2024-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1265 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
306 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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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, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 12:07 PM MDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 1:57 PM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 2:34 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 2:35 PM MDT, 25 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 2:52 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 8:05 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQLos Alamos, Sandoval8 hr
Jun 20, 9:06 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSandoval3 hr
Jun 20, 9:31 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQRio Arriba6 hr
Jun 21, 4:14 AM MDTFlood WatchABQBernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos and 10 more26 hr
Jun 21, 8:15 AM MDTRiver Flood AdvisoryABQSandoval26 hr
Jun 21, 11:29 AM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQLincoln6 hr
Jun 21, 1:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan33 min
Jun 21, 2:01 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSan Miguel5 hr
Jun 21, 2:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Juan19 min
Jun 21, 2:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCibola41 min
Jun 21, 2:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan53 min
Jun 21, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Juan47 min
Jun 21, 3:19 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Juan3 hr
Jun 21, 3:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCibola15 min
Jun 21, 3:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Juan46 min
Jun 21, 3:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Juan38 min
Jun 21, 3:36 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyABQCibola15 hr
Jun 21, 4:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMcKinley45 min
Jun 21, 4:14 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSan Juan17 min
Jun 21, 4:31 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Juan10 hr
Jun 21, 4:32 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Miguel3 hr
Jun 21, 4:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ26 min
Jun 21, 4:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCibola41 min
Jun 21, 5:23 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCibola102 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.