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Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 6, 2025Guadalupe County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2025, 1:32 AM MDT for Guadalupe County, San Miguel 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 6, 2025, 1:32 AM MDT (07:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2025, 4:30 AM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Guadalupe County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:35 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 282 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: 1732 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.8

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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 5, 6:17 PM MDT, 7 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 6:17 PM MDT, 7 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 8:22 PM MDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 9:24 PM MDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 10:14 PM MDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 12:28 AM MDT, 1 hour 4 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 5, 6:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	29 min
Jul 5, 6:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	33 min
Jul 5, 6:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 5, 7:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay	29 min
Jul 5, 7:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	31 min
Jul 5, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	48 min
Jul 5, 8:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	38 min
Jul 5, 8:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	31 min
Jul 5, 9:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	31 min
Jul 5, 9:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	51 min
Jul 5, 9:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	32 min
Jul 5, 10:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	46 min
Jul 5, 10:55 PM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Lincoln	19 hr
Jul 6, 12:28 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	32 min
Jul 6, 12:48 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	42 min
Jul 6, 1:38 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe	3 hr
Jul 6, 2:41 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	34 min
Jul 6, 2:57 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	33 min
Jul 6, 3:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	45 min
Jul 6, 3:17 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		28 min
Jul 6, 3:45 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	15 min
Jul 6, 3:48 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		27 min
Jul 6, 3:59 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe	2 hr
Jul 6, 4:20 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	25 min
Jul 6, 11:53 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 6, 12:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	28 min
Jul 6, 12:21 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 6, 12:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	26 min
Jul 6, 1:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	26 min
Jul 6, 1:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	33 min
Jul 6, 1:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	3 hr
Jul 6, 1:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	21 min
Jul 6, 2:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	37 min
Jul 6, 2:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	22 min
Jul 6, 2:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 6, 2:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	23 min
Jul 6, 2:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 6, 3:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Torrance	3 hr
Jul 6, 3:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	41 min
Jul 6, 3:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 6, 3:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	28 min
Jul 6, 3:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	24 min
Jul 6, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	34 min
Jul 6, 3:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	33 min
Jul 6, 4:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	25 min
Jul 6, 4:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	38 min
Jul 6, 4:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	42 min
Jul 6, 4:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	31 min
Jul 6, 5:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 6, 5:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	24 min
Jul 6, 5:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	35 min
Jul 6, 5:52 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	113 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.