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Flash Flood Warning 197, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 26, 2025, 1:44 PM MST for Cibola 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 26, 2025, 1:44 PM MST (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2025, 4:45 PM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Cibola County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:48 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
Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 348 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1305 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 5:08 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:15 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 26 min |
| Aug 25, 5:22 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 23 min | |
| Aug 25, 5:33 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:34 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | San Miguel | 116 min |
| Aug 25, 5:51 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 24 min |
| Aug 25, 5:59 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 6:04 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Miguel | 41 min |
| Aug 25, 6:35 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Los Alamos, Sandoval | 115 min |
| Aug 25, 7:22 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | San Miguel | 113 min |
| Aug 25, 8:05 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:11 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 8:30 PM MST | River Flood Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 11 hr |
| Aug 25, 10:42 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:36 AM MST | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Aug 26, 11:59 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Cibola | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 12:00 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 17 min |
| Aug 26, 12:17 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:28 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Cibola | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 1:33 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | McKinley, San Juan | 42 min |
| Aug 26, 1:36 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Los Alamos | 24 min |
| Aug 26, 1:50 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Torrance | 25 min |
| Aug 26, 2:08 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 37 min |
| Aug 26, 2:22 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Cibola | 23 min |
| Aug 26, 2:37 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 23 min | |
| Aug 26, 2:39 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Juan | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 2:53 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval, Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:02 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 28 min |
| Aug 26, 4:31 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:35 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 25 min |
| Aug 26, 4:45 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Mora | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 4:59 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 31 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.