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Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 3, 2025Bernalillo County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2025, 1:08 AM MDT for Bernalillo 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
Jul 3, 2025, 1:08 AM MDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2025, 4:00 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Bernalillo County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:09 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 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 354 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 00:00Z on 2025-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 489 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 00:00Z on 2025-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
489 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 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 Jul 2, 9:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 9:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 6:28 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLincoln, Socorro2 hr
Jul 2, 8:39 PM MDTFlood WatchABQColfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more19 hr
Jul 3, 2:14 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval2 hr
Jul 3, 3:01 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQValencia3 hr
Jul 3, 4:41 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSocorro, Valencia3 hr
Jul 3, 12:05 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSan Miguel4 hr
Jul 3, 2:03 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQColfax3 hr
Jul 3, 4:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQGuadalupe34 min
Jul 3, 5:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQGuadalupe28 min
Jul 3, 5:51 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQQuay5 hr
Jul 3, 5:57 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQQuay3 hr

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.