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Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 12, 2025Guadalupe County, Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2025, 3:39 AM MDT for Guadalupe County, Quay 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 12, 2025, 3:39 AM MDT (09:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 2025, 6:45 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Guadalupe County, NM, Quay County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1969 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1969 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.2

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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 12, 12:33 AM MDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 12:33 AM MDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 11, 9:50 PM MDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 10:16 PM MDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 11, 11:03 PM MDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 11, 11:04 PM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 6:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQColfax3 hr
Jul 11, 6:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatABQUnion15 min
Jul 11, 6:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Harding48 min
Jul 11, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora47 min
Jul 11, 6:24 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQMora3 hr
Jul 11, 7:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion36 min
Jul 11, 7:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, Union38 min
Jul 11, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel24 min
Jul 11, 8:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, San Miguel, Union50 min
Jul 11, 9:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQHarding, Union3 hr
Jul 11, 9:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay50 min
Jul 11, 10:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCurry, Quay44 min
Jul 12, 2:27 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Quay48 min
Jul 12, 4:38 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt30 min
Jul 12, 6:10 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCurry, Roosevelt3 hr
Jul 12, 11:30 AM MDTFlood WatchABQBernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln and 9 more34 hr
Jul 12, 2:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTaos36 min
Jul 12, 2:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTaos46 min
Jul 12, 3:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCibola39 min
Jul 12, 4:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLos Alamos47 min
Jul 12, 5:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSandoval45 min
Jul 12, 5:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSandoval47 min
Jul 12, 5:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval43 min
Jul 12, 5:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQBernalillo50 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.