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Flash Flood Warning 72, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 3, 2025Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2025, 5:51 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 5 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, 5:51 PM MDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2025, 10:38 PM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Quay County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:52 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 372 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: 315 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 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 3, 5:29 PM MDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 5:29 PM MDT, 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 3, 1:11 PM MDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
111 PM MDT Thu Jul 3 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0300 AM     Flash Flood      2 NNW Cabezon           35.26N 106.71W
07/03/2025                   Sandoval           NM   Amateur Radio

            Heavy rains topping 2 inches caused thick
            dirt and debris runoffs over roadways across
            western Rio Rancho which caused at least one
            road closure and debris removal efforts.
            Timing is an estimate based on radar.

&&

RJH

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:56 PM MDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 5:32 PM MDT, 19 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
Jul 2, 6:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro	2 hr
Jul 2, 8:39 PM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more	19 hr
Jul 3, 1:08 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo	3 hr
Jul 3, 2:14 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	2 hr
Jul 3, 3:01 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Valencia	3 hr
Jul 3, 4:41 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Socorro, Valencia	3 hr
Jul 3, 12:05 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	4 hr
Jul 3, 2:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 3, 4:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	34 min
Jul 3, 5:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	28 min
Jul 3, 5:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Quay	3 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.