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Flash Flood Warning 150, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 17, 2026Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Sep 17, 2026, 7:03 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 17, 2026, 7:03 PM MDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2026, 10:00 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 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 915 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 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 Sep 17, 5:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 5:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 17, 6:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 17, 6:05 PM MDT, 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 17, 6:38 PM MDT, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 17, 6:40 PM MDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 17, 6:41 PM MDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 17, 7:03 PM MDT, 0 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
Sep 17, 7:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	27 min
Sep 17, 7:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	31 min
Sep 17, 8:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	23 min
Sep 17, 8:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Sep 17, 9:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	30 min
Sep 17, 9:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	6 hr
Sep 17, 10:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	16 hr
Sep 17, 10:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	34 min
Sep 17, 10:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo	2 hr
Sep 17, 11:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	49 min
Sep 17, 11:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	31 min
Sep 17, 11:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe	114 min
Sep 17, 11:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	2 hr
Sep 18, 12:14 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Santa Fe	2 hr
Sep 18, 12:28 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	32 min
Sep 18, 1:22 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	38 min
Sep 18, 2:07 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	3 hr
Sep 18, 3:05 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Lincoln, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 4 more	21 hr
Sep 18, 3:18 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	3 hr
Sep 18, 9:56 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro	5 hr
Sep 18, 1:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	14 min
Sep 18, 1:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	43 min
Sep 18, 1:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Sep 18, 1:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	21 min
Sep 18, 1:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	3 hr
Sep 18, 1:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	McKinley	30 min
Sep 18, 1:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	McKinley, Sandoval	3 hr
Sep 18, 2:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	3 hr
Sep 18, 2:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	43 min
Sep 18, 2:33 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	23 hr
Sep 18, 2:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	3 hr
Sep 18, 3:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	31 min
Sep 18, 3:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	118 min
Sep 18, 3:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	2 hr
Sep 18, 3:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	32 min
Sep 18, 3:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	25 min
Sep 18, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, San Juan	48 min
Sep 18, 4:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		30 min
Sep 18, 4:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	2 hr
Sep 18, 4:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	McKinley	44 min
Sep 18, 5:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	3 hr
Sep 18, 5:08 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Sep 18, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	30 min
Sep 18, 5:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		26 min
Sep 18, 5:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Sep 18, 5:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	26 min
Sep 18, 5:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	24 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.