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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 17, 2025Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2025, 12:30 PM MDT for Lincoln 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 17, 2025, 12:30 PM MDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2025, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Flood severity: None

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 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 17, 5:40 AM MDT, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 5:40 AM MDT, 6 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 17, 10:12 AM MDT, 2 hours 18 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 16, 6:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	37 min
Jul 16, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	43 min
Jul 16, 8:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	28 min
Jul 16, 9:12 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	2 hr
Jul 16, 11:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	26 min
Jul 16, 11:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 17, 12:36 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Quay	3 hr
Jul 17, 2:57 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 17, 10:55 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Lincoln	31 hr
Jul 17, 12:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora	6 hr
Jul 17, 12:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Taos	4 hr
Jul 17, 2:11 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Jul 17, 2:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	24 min
Jul 17, 2:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	16 min
Jul 17, 3:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Taos	3 hr
Jul 17, 3:14 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Torrance	2 hr
Jul 17, 3:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	31 min
Jul 17, 3:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	35 min
Jul 17, 4:05 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 17, 4:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	27 min
Jul 17, 4:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	30 min
Jul 17, 4:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	27 min
Jul 17, 4:36 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 17, 4:50 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Valencia	3 hr
Jul 17, 4:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	32 min
Jul 17, 5:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	29 min
Jul 17, 5:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	27 min
Jul 17, 5:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	31 min
Jul 17, 5:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	36 min
Jul 17, 5:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	35 min
Jul 17, 5:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	28 min
Jul 17, 5:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	36 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.