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Red Flag Warning 37, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Apr 23, 2008, 6:52 AM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 23, 2008, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Apr 23, 2008, 6:52 AM MDT (12:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 23, 2008, 2:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2008, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Harding County, NM, McKinley County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 440 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
- 1133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Apr 23, 3:04 AM MDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 23, 3:04 AM MDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 6:52 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 6 more | 26 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.