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Flash Flood Warning 180, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 2, 2025Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2025, 6:42 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 5 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: Aug 2, 2025, 6:42 PM MDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2025, 11:45 PM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 1232 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 2, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	48 min
Aug 2, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	49 min
Aug 2, 6:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	39 min
Aug 2, 7:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	57 min
Aug 2, 7:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	55 min
Aug 2, 8:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	67 min
Aug 2, 8:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	44 min
Aug 2, 9:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	49 min
Aug 2, 10:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	45 min
Aug 3, 4:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	31 min

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.