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Flash Flood Warning 230, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 7, 2025Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Oct 7, 2025, 4:45 PM MDT for Socorro 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
Oct 7, 2025, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Oct 7, 2025, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 239 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2025-10-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 114 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2025-10-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2211 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 6, 6:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe40 min
Oct 7, 1:15 AM MDTFlood WatchABQBernalillo, Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Sandoval and 5 more21 hr
Oct 7, 4:51 AM MDTDense Fog AdvisoryABQSan Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance5 hr
Oct 7, 3:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ36 min
Oct 7, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro50 min
Oct 7, 3:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro, Valencia31 min
Oct 7, 4:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro40 min
Oct 7, 4:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatABQSocorro, Valencia64 min
Oct 7, 4:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro49 min
Oct 7, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro, Valencia46 min
Oct 7, 5:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro51 min
Oct 7, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatABQSocorro, Torrance54 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.