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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 26, 2025Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2025, 3:54 PM MDT for Lincoln 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: May 26, 2025, 3:54 PM MDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2025, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
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 21:57 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 670 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 May 25, 5:50 PM MDT, 22 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 5:50 PM MDT, 22 hours 4 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
May 25, 6:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	30 min
May 25, 6:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	42 min
May 25, 7:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
May 25, 7:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	23 min
May 25, 7:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	44 min
May 25, 7:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	20 min
May 25, 10:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		31 min
May 26, 1:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe	3 hr
May 26, 1:21 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
May 26, 1:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe	23 min
May 26, 1:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	27 min
May 26, 2:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	35 min
May 26, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe	23 min
May 26, 2:43 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
May 26, 2:45 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax	4 hr
May 26, 2:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	45 min
May 26, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe, Torrance	42 min
May 26, 3:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	23 min
May 26, 3:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	50 min
May 26, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	46 min
May 26, 3:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	38 min
May 26, 4:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	28 min
May 26, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	63 min
May 26, 5:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	30 min
May 26, 5:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	27 min
May 26, 5:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	35 min
May 26, 5:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	33 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.