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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2026, 12:49 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, 2026, 12:49 PM MDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2026, 4:00 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 18:53 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 Jul 17, 11:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 11:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 14 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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| Jul 16, 6:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | McKinley | 117 min |
| Jul 16, 8:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | ABQ | McKinley | 107 min |
| Jul 17, 12:08 PM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Lincoln | 30 hr |
| Jul 17, 12:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 119 min |
| Jul 17, 1:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | McKinley | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 1:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 1:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 1:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | De Baca | 32 min |
| Jul 17, 2:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 24 min |
| Jul 17, 2:40 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | McKinley | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 2:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 25 min | |
| Jul 17, 2:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 31 min |
| Jul 17, 3:04 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 34 min |
| Jul 17, 3:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 28 min | |
| Jul 17, 3:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:42 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval, Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:49 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 4:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 35 min |
| Jul 17, 4:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 28 min |
| Jul 17, 5:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 26 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.