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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 27, 2024Cibola County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2024, 1:40 PM MST for Cibola 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 27, 2024, 1:40 PM MST (20:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2024, 4:45 PM MST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Cibola County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 348 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: 765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 27, 10:28 AM MST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 10:28 AM MST, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:37 PM MST, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:47 PM MST, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:02 PM MST, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:07 PM MST, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:15 PM MST, 25 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 26, 5:01 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	3 hr
Jun 26, 5:18 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	42 min
Jun 26, 5:26 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Jun 26, 5:35 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Jun 26, 5:39 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	36 min
Jun 26, 6:09 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	51 min
Jun 26, 6:22 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	3 hr
Jun 26, 6:37 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	38 min
Jun 26, 8:23 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	3 hr
Jun 26, 9:45 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	2 hr
Jun 27, 10:48 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		27 min
Jun 27, 11:03 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		27 min
Jun 27, 11:24 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		36 min
Jun 27, 12:04 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	26 min
Jun 27, 12:37 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	23 min
Jun 27, 12:47 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	28 min
Jun 27, 12:58 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jun 27, 1:07 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	23 min
Jun 27, 1:10 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	35 min
Jun 27, 1:15 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	30 min
Jun 27, 1:46 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	29 min
Jun 27, 2:11 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Union	3 hr
Jun 27, 2:21 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval, Valencia	24 min
Jun 27, 2:26 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		34 min
Jun 27, 2:38 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Jun 27, 3:11 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	34 min
Jun 27, 3:31 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	44 min
Jun 27, 3:34 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	41 min
Jun 27, 4:11 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora, Union	3 hr
Jun 27, 4:11 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	49 min
Jun 27, 4:15 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	45 min
Jun 27, 4:44 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	31 min
Jun 27, 4:52 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 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.