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Flash Flood Warning 114, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 21, 2025Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 21, 2025, 6:03 PM MDT for Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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: Jul 21, 2025, 6:03 PM MDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2025, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 409 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 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 Jul 21, 5:38 PM MDT, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 5:38 PM MDT, 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 21, 12:53 PM MDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
1253 PM MDT Mon Jul 21 2025

NMZ218-222-223-211930-
Santa Fe Metro Area NM-Estancia Valley NM-Central Highlands NM-
1253 PM MDT Mon Jul 21 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHERN TORRANCE...
SOUTHEASTERN SANTA FE AND WESTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTIES UNTIL 130 PM
MDT...

At 1253 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm
near Stanley, or 11 miles northeast of Moriarty, moving northeast at
25 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
  Stanley.

This includes Highway 285 between Mile Markers 259 and 273.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening
weather conditions.

Accumulations of small hail on roads can create very slick and
hazardous driving conditions.

&&

LAT...LON 3506 10588 3504 10591 3513 10603 3534 10586
      3518 10561
TIME...MOT...LOC 1853Z 225DEG 20KT 3513 10591

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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Local storm report, Jul 21, 5:41 PM MDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 5:56 PM MDT, 7 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
Jul 22, 2:53 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	3 hr
Jul 22, 12:52 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	4 hr
Jul 22, 1:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 22, 1:04 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 22, 2:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	32 min
Jul 22, 4:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	37 min
Jul 22, 5:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 22, 5:27 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	3 hr
Jul 22, 5:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	33 min
Jul 22, 5:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	32 min
Jul 22, 5:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	28 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.