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Flash Flood Warning 170, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 1, 2025Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2025, 2:50 AM MDT for Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 115 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: Aug 1, 2025, 2:50 AM MDT (08:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2025, 4:45 AM MDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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 Aug 1, 2:35 AM MDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 2:35 AM MDT, 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 12:06 AM MDT, 2 hours 44 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 31, 6:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval	3 hr
Jul 31, 7:24 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 31, 8:10 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 31, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	14 min
Jul 31, 8:13 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jul 31, 8:43 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	84 min
Jul 31, 9:12 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Valencia	70 min
Jul 31, 9:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jul 31, 9:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 31, 9:39 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	6 hr
Jul 31, 10:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	40 min
Jul 31, 10:11 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 31, 10:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 31, 10:41 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 31, 10:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jul 31, 11:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jul 31, 11:44 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 1, 12:06 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	24 min
Aug 1, 12:20 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	3 hr
Aug 1, 3:18 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Catron, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln, Mora and 7 more	21 hr
Aug 1, 1:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Lincoln	4 hr
Aug 1, 2:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	25 min
Aug 1, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	24 min
Aug 1, 3:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Taos	23 min
Aug 1, 3:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	34 min
Aug 1, 3:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	28 min
Aug 1, 3:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	2 hr
Aug 1, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola	23 min
Aug 1, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	29 min
Aug 1, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Catron	28 min
Aug 1, 4:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Aug 1, 4:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	51 min
Aug 1, 4:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Aug 1, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	37 min
Aug 1, 4:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	24 min
Aug 1, 4:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	24 min
Aug 1, 5:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	3 hr
Aug 1, 5:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	37 min
Aug 1, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	49 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.