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Flash Flood Warning 137, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 28, 2025Lincoln County, Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2025, 10:36 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Socorro 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
Jul 28, 2025, 10:36 PM MDT (04:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2025, 1:30 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Lincoln County, NM, Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 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 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2025-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 722 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2025-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
722 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 6:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTorrance23 min
Jul 28, 6:46 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSan Miguel3 hr
Jul 28, 7:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay25 min
Jul 28, 8:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSocorro3 hr
Jul 28, 8:50 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSocorro30 min
Jul 28, 9:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSocorro26 min
Jul 28, 9:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSocorro3 hr
Jul 28, 11:43 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLincoln3 hr
Jul 29, 1:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQHarding, Mora3 hr
Jul 29, 2:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax27 min
Jul 29, 2:38 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQMora3 hr
Jul 29, 5:14 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSan Miguel3 hr

Nearby

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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.