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Flash Flood Warning 110, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 19, 2026Catron County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 2026, 4:03 PM MDT for Catron County, New Mexico. It was in force for 111 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
Aug 19, 2026, 4:03 PM MDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 2026, 5:54 PM MDT
In force
111 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Flood severity
None

County Catron County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 19, 2:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 2:01 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 19, 2:11 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 19, 3:56 PM MDT, 7 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 19, 4:00 PM MDT, 3 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
400 PM MDT Wed Aug 19 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0303 PM     Hail             Mora                    35.97N 105.33W
08/19/2026  E1.75 Inch       Mora               NM   Broadcast Media

            Social media photo of estimated golf ball
            size hail in Mora relayed by local Broadcast
            Media.

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RJH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 1:26 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQLincoln66 min
Aug 19, 1:57 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQCatron2 hr
Aug 19, 2:10 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQMora6 hr
Aug 19, 2:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora51 min
Aug 19, 3:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel38 min
Aug 19, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora, San Miguel48 min
Aug 19, 3:33 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSan Miguel4 hr
Aug 19, 3:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel51 min
Aug 19, 3:44 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQMora, San Miguel4 hr
Aug 19, 4:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel51 min
Aug 19, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel33 min
Aug 19, 4:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTorrance29 min
Aug 19, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel38 min
Aug 19, 5:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax27 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.