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Flash Flood Warning 210, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 2025, 3:03 PM MDT for Catron 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 31, 2025, 3:03 PM MDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Catron County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 1013 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1524 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 31, 1:18 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 1:18 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 30, 9:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Miguel | 27 min |
| Aug 30, 10:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 56 min |
| Aug 30, 10:27 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 11:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 41 min |
| Aug 30, 11:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 11:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 24 min |
| Aug 31, 12:03 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 42 min |
| Aug 31, 12:35 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 12:39 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:25 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | De Baca | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 2:00 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | De Baca | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 9:10 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Catron | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 3:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 34 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.