Alert archive / New Mexico / Flash Flood Warnings in 2025

Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 4, 2025Cibola County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 4, 2025, 1:19 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: Jun 4, 2025, 1:19 PM MST (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2025, 4:30 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 20:17 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jun 4, 10:51 AM MST, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 10:51 AM MST, 2 hours 28 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:39 AM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
1139 AM MDT Wed Jun 4 2025

NMZ201-041815-
Northwest Plateau NM-
1139 AM MDT Wed Jun 4 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN SAN JUAN COUNTY
UNTIL 1215 PM MDT...

At 1139 AM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 17
miles west of Shiprock, moving northeast at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
  Shiprock.

This includes Highway 64 between Mile Markers 1 and 16.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening
weather conditions.

&&

LAT...LON 3666 10904 3667 10905 3688 10905 3699 10890
      3682 10872
TIME...MOT...LOC 1738Z 226DEG 14KT 3678 10901

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

DPorter

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 8:30 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	30 min
Jun 3, 9:27 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	2 hr
Jun 3, 11:50 PM MST	Flood Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, Colfax, McKinley, Mora, Rio Arriba and 7 more	18 hr
Jun 4, 10:25 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Catron, Cibola	65 min
Jun 4, 10:39 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		36 min
Jun 4, 12:21 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola	39 min
Jun 4, 12:58 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola, Valencia	52 min
Jun 4, 1:12 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	3 hr
Jun 4, 1:49 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	26 min
Jun 4, 2:04 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	26 min
Jun 4, 2:22 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	38 min
Jun 4, 2:37 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	3 hr
Jun 4, 2:50 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	28 min
Jun 4, 2:55 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro, Valencia	53 min
Jun 4, 3:25 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Valencia	2 hr
Jun 4, 3:44 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	31 min
Jun 4, 4:24 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jun 4, 4:52 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	38 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2025 Every flash flood warning in 2025

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.