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Flash Flood Warning 155, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 31, 2025Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2025, 3:18 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 117 min. 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 31, 2025, 3:18 PM MDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2025, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 117 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 31, 1:11 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 1:11 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 31, 2:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 31, 2:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 2:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 31, 2:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 31, 2:23 PM MDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 2:55 PM MDT, 23 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 30, 6:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Valencia	91 min
Jul 30, 7:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	41 min
Jul 30, 7:29 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 30, 7:42 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	3 hr
Jul 30, 8:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jul 30, 8:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	115 min
Jul 30, 9:15 PM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos	5 hr
Jul 30, 9:27 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 30, 9:51 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	3 hr
Jul 30, 10:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Mora	3 hr
Jul 30, 10:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 30, 11:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe	3 hr
Jul 31, 1:07 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Quay	3 hr
Jul 31, 2:25 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Quay	3 hr
Jul 31, 2:34 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Catron, Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel and 3 more	18 hr
Jul 31, 12:23 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Lincoln	4 hr
Jul 31, 2:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	26 min
Jul 31, 2:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	35 min
Jul 31, 3:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	40 min
Jul 31, 3:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		25 min
Jul 31, 4:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Catron	28 min
Jul 31, 4:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Jul 31, 4:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Jul 31, 4:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	29 min
Jul 31, 4:27 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan	99 min
Jul 31, 5:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Socorro	2 hr
Jul 31, 5:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax	5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.