Flash Flood, Torrance
- When
- July 26, 1:48 PM MST to 2:10 PM MST
- Where
- Torrance County, 3 mi N of Encino
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
- Coordinates
- 34.700, -105.450
Highway crews reported water one foot deep running over State Road 3 north of Encino.
Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 26, 2005
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 26, 10:35 AM MST, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 10:35 AM MST, 3 hours 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1135 AM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 .UPDATE...WARMED SOME FIRST PERIOD TEMPS A BIT E AND CENTRAL NM...OTHERWISE FORECAST LOOKS GREAT. AM CONTINUING WITH FFA AS IS. CONVECTION STARTING TO FIRE ALONG MUCH OF THE E SLOPES CENTRAL MTN CHAIN AND WITH UPSLOPE BEGINNING TO INCREASE IN POST FRONTAL ENVIRONMENT LOOKS LIKE WE ARE SOON TO TAKE OFF WITH SOME HEAVY RAINERS AND POSSIBLE BACKBUILDING OR TRAINING STORMS IN FFA AREA. 43 && .PREV DISCUSSION...300 AM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005...WITH THIS PACKAGE...WILL ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN AND EASTERN PLAINS...EXCEPT FOR UNION COUNTY...THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. TROUGH ALOFT CURRENTLY CROSSING THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES DRIVING AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG BACK DOOR COLD FRONT THAT BEGAN PUSHING INTO THE NORTHEAST PLAINS EARLY THIS MORNING. MODELS DEPICT UPSLOPE FLOW REACHING THE 10K FEET LEVEL BEHIND THE FRONT BY THE TIME IT REACHES THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON. MEANWHILE...MID LEVEL FLOW SHOULD DRIVE THUNDERSTORMS TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT SPEEDS FROM 10 TO 15 MPH. WITH PERSISTENT AND DEEP UPSLOPE FLOW UNDER A FEW SHORT WAVES ALOFT...WE/RE CONCERNED THAT THUNDERSTORMS MAY REPEATEDLY GENERATE ALONG THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. PRECIPITABLE WATERS ARE ALREADY AROUND 1 INCH IN THE AREA...AND THEY/LL INCREASE TO AROUND 2 INCHES IN THE WATCH AREA AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. THUS...THE WATCH SEEMS PRUDENT. LEFT UNION COUNTY OUT OF THE WATCH BECAUSE THE RELATIVELY DEEP COOL AIR WILL SETTLE ACROSS THAT AREA WITH PLENTY OF CLOUDINESS BY THE AFTERNOON...RESULTING IN LESS INSTABILITY COMPARED TO AREAS FURTHER WEST AND SOUTH. LOOK FOR MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE NORTHEAST TODAY. THE FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN WITH VIGOR AROUND SUNSET...WITH EAST WINDS BELOW CANYONS IN THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AT SPEEDS UP TO AROUND 35 MPH. WILL MONITOR FOR A POTENTIAL OVER THE TOP EVENT...THAT COULD RESULT IN MUCH STRONGER WINDS IN THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. BY WEDNESDAY MORNING...COOLER AND MORE STABLE AIR WILL SETTLE OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. ALSO...THE BEST LIFT WITH THE COLD FRONT MAY PUSH WELL SOUTH OF OUR CWA. IF THE FRONT SLOWS...MAY CONTINUE TO SEE THE THREAT OF MORE HEAVY RAIN ALONG THE SOUTHERN TIER OF ZONES. WE/LL MONITOR FOR THIS...BUT SHOULD SEE MAINLY SCATTERED TO ISOLATED CONVECTION FAVORING SOUTHERN AND WESTERN AREAS THROUGH THE END OF THE WORK WEEK AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT GRADUALLY REBUILDS IN THE VICINITY OF AZ. && .ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH FROM 1 PM TUESDAY TO 1 AM WEDNESDAY FOR NMZ004- NMZ005-NMZ006-NMZ010-NMZ011-NMZ012-NMZ013-NMZ016-NMZ017-NMZ018- NMZ019-NMZ020-NMZ021-NMZ026. && 44
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 26, 5:00 AM MST, 8 hours 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 NMZ001>021-026-271200- CAPITAN/NORTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS- CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS/ESTANCIA VALLEY-CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS- CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF CHAVES COUNTY- HARDING COUNTY-LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS/HONDO VALLEY- LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS INCLUDING JEMEZ-NORTHWEST PLATEAU-QUAY COUNTY- ROOSEVELT COUNTY-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/UPPER GILA REGION-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- 547 AM MDT TUE JUL 26 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN COULD POTENTIALLY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL LATE TONIGHT ALONG THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN AND EASTERN PLAINS...EXCEPT FOR UNION COUNTY. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MORE INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. REMEMBER...WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED TO IDENTIFY FLASH FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL LATE TONIGHT IN CHAVES...COLFAX...CURRY...DE BACA...GUADALUPE...HARDING...LINCOLN...MORA...QUAY...ROOSEVELT...SAN MIGUEL...SANTA FE...TAOS AND TORRANCE COUNTIES. 44
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 135 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:46 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Indiana, July 26, 2005
- Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, July 26, 2005
- Rip Current in Florida, July 26, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 26, 2005
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 26, 2005
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in New York, July 26, 2005
- Flooding in Iowa, July 26 to 31, 2005
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 26, 2005
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 26, 2005
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, July 26, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 26, 2005
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 26, 2005
More
Every storm in New Mexico in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in New Mexico, July 2005
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5456390.