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Red Flag Warning 54, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at May 24, 2008, 6:01 AM MDT for Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at May 24, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 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
- May 24, 2008, 6:01 AM MDT (12:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 24, 2008, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 24, 2008, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Harding County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:58 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 420 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 24, 2:57 AM MDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:57 AM MDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT SAT MAY 24 2008 NMZ001>021-026-251200- NORTHWEST PLATEAU-NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS INCLUDING JEMEZ- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-HARDING COUNTY-FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS- WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA- SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS/ESTANCIA VALLEY- CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-QUAY COUNTY- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/UPPER GILA REGION-LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS/HONDO VALLEY- CAPITAN/NORTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-DE BACA COUNTY- CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF CHAVES COUNTY- 600 AM MDT SAT MAY 24 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR MOST OF NEW MEXICO ALONG AND EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RED FLAG WARNING PRODUCT FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY STRONG WINDS COMBINED WITH LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO AGAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE A POSSIBILITY ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS SUNDAY AND PERHAPS AGAIN TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY. WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 24 HOURS. 43
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 24, 12:45 AM MDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:01 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel, Union | 22 hr |
| May 24, 3:06 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Harding, Sandoval, San Miguel, Socorro, Union and 1 more | 39 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.