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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 8, 2025Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2025, 5:24 PM MDT for Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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 8, 2025, 5:24 PM MDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2025, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 283 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: 3291 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 8, 3:07 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:07 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:19 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:24 PM MDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:42 PM MDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:58 PM MDT, 26 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
Jun 7, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	49 min
Jun 7, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	48 min
Jun 7, 6:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	30 min
Jun 7, 6:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	16 min
Jun 7, 6:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Harding, Union	46 min
Jun 7, 7:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	36 min
Jun 7, 7:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	46 min
Jun 7, 7:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	33 min
Jun 7, 7:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	31 min
Jun 7, 8:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	36 min
Jun 7, 9:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	33 min
Jun 7, 9:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	26 min
Jun 7, 10:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	49 min
Jun 7, 11:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	30 min
Jun 7, 11:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	27 min
Jun 8, 1:42 PM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos	31 hr
Jun 8, 2:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	51 min
Jun 8, 2:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	38 min
Jun 8, 3:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	28 min
Jun 8, 3:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Mora	116 min
Jun 8, 3:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	50 min
Jun 8, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	42 min
Jun 8, 3:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	22 min
Jun 8, 3:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	30 min
Jun 8, 3:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	28 min
Jun 8, 4:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	31 min
Jun 8, 4:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	41 min
Jun 8, 4:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	36 min
Jun 8, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	33 min
Jun 8, 4:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	33 min
Jun 8, 4:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	36 min
Jun 8, 4:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	32 min
Jun 8, 5:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Union	113 min
Jun 8, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	32 min
Jun 8, 5:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		27 min
Jun 8, 5:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	28 min
Jun 8, 5:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	26 min
Jun 8, 5:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	37 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.