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Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2026, 6:13 PM MDT for 4 counties in 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 22, 2026, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2026, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties McKinley County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, Sandoval County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 350 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1962 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 22, 5:48 PM MDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 5:48 PM MDT, 25 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 22, 7:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 36 min | |
| Jul 23, 12:41 AM MDT | Heat Advisory | ABQ | Quay | 19 hr |
| Jul 23, 11:45 AM MDT | Heat Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 32 hr |
| Jul 23, 11:47 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Socorro | 26 min |
| Jul 23, 12:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 1:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 37 min | |
| Jul 23, 2:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 2:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Catron | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Catron | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | McKinley | 29 min |
| Jul 23, 3:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 31 min |
| Jul 23, 3:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Socorro | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Socorro | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:45 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:51 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Catron | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:14 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 5:05 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 5:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.