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Flash Flood Warning 84, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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 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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 11, 6:02 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 15 min |
| Jul 11, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Harding | 48 min |
| Jul 11, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 47 min |
| Jul 11, 6:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Mora | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 7:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 36 min |
| Jul 11, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, Union | 38 min |
| Jul 11, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 24 min |
| Jul 11, 8:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union | 50 min |
| Jul 11, 9:02 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Harding, Union | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 9:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 50 min |
| Jul 11, 10:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 44 min |
| Jul 12, 2:27 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay | 48 min |
| Jul 12, 4:38 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 30 min |
| Jul 12, 6:10 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 11:30 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln and 9 more | 34 hr |
| Jul 12, 2:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Taos | 36 min |
| Jul 12, 2:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Taos | 46 min |
| Jul 12, 3:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Cibola | 39 min |
| Jul 12, 4:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Los Alamos | 47 min |
| Jul 12, 5:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 45 min |
| Jul 12, 5:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 47 min |
| Jul 12, 5:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 43 min |
| Jul 12, 5:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 50 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.