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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 512, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 15, 2025Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 15, 2025, 10:52 PM MDT for Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 15, 2025, 10:52 PM MDT (04:52 UTC)
Expired: Oct 15, 2025, 11:15 PM MDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Rio Arriba County, NM

The radar

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 15, 5:50 PM MDT, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 5:50 PM MDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 15, 5:13 PM MDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 15, 5:16 PM MDT, 5 hours 36 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
Oct 15, 9:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	118 min
Oct 15, 10:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	35 min
Oct 15, 11:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	24 min
Oct 15, 11:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe	4 hr
Oct 16, 1:00 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	30 min
Oct 16, 1:18 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	27 min
Oct 16, 2:30 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	30 min
Oct 16, 11:37 AM MDT	Freeze Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Colfax, McKinley, Mora, Rio Arriba and 5 more	21 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.