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Flash Flood Warning 96, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 14, 2026Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this flash flood warning at Aug 14, 2026, 4:39 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: Aug 14, 2026, 4:39 PM MDT (22:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2026, 7:45 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 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 364 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: 1426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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 14, 2:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 2:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 14, 2:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 46 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
Aug 14, 12:10 PM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Lincoln	28 hr
Aug 14, 12:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Aug 14, 4:35 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Lincoln	84 min
Aug 14, 4:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	35 min
Aug 14, 4:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Aug 14, 5:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Aug 14, 5:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, Rio Arriba, Taos	3 hr
Aug 14, 5:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	23 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New Mexico, 2026 Every flash flood warning in 2026

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.