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Flash Flood Warning 137, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 15, 2026, 4:57 PM MDT for Sandoval 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
- Sep 15, 2026, 4:57 PM MDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2026, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Sandoval County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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 Sep 15, 2:12 PM MDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 15, 2:12 PM MDT, 2 hours 45 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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| Sep 14, 6:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo | 3 hr |
| Sep 14, 6:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 34 min | |
| Sep 14, 9:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | McKinley | 24 min |
| Sep 15, 1:01 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Catron, Socorro | 23 hr |
| Sep 15, 11:07 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, McKinley and 9 more | 43 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 12:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 1:06 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 1:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval | 113 min |
| Sep 15, 1:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 30 min | |
| Sep 15, 1:53 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Cibola | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 2:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | San Miguel, Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 3:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 24 min |
| Sep 15, 3:27 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Sandoval | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 3:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Santa Fe | 4 hr |
| Sep 15, 3:55 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 3:59 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | McKinley | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 40 min |
| Sep 15, 4:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 28 min | |
| Sep 15, 4:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 4:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 23 min |
| Sep 15, 4:44 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 5:10 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Santa Fe | 3 hr |
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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.