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Flash Flood Warning 194, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 25, 2025San Juan County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 2025, 4:04 PM MDT for San Juan 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
Aug 25, 2025, 4:04 PM MDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2025, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County San Juan County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 203 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 344 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2025-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 116 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2025-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 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
Aug 25, 1:32 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSan Miguel3 hr
Aug 25, 1:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax30 min
Aug 25, 3:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax37 min
Aug 25, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora30 min
Aug 25, 3:57 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQBernalillo, Torrance2 hr
Aug 25, 4:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora37 min
Aug 25, 4:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQRio Arriba29 min
Aug 25, 4:53 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQRio Arriba2 hr
Aug 25, 4:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora34 min
Aug 25, 5:07 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQRio Arriba113 min
Aug 25, 5:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Mora, San Miguel51 min
Aug 25, 5:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTaos33 min
Aug 25, 5:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora28 min
Aug 25, 5:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSandoval3 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.