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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 5, 201012 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at May 5, 2010, 5:48 AM MDT for 12 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 6, 2010, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 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 5, 2010, 5:48 AM MDT (11:48 UTC)
In effect from: May 6, 2010, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired: May 6, 2010, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Harding County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:46 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.

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 5, 3:00 AM MDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 3:00 AM MDT, 2 hours 48 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
May 5, 5:48 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan, Socorro	14 hr
May 5, 2:38 PM MDT	High Wind Watch	ABQ		14 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2010 Every red flag warning in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.