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Red Flag Warning 23, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 23, 20109 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at May 23, 2010, 4:43 AM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 23, 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 23, 2010, 4:43 AM MDT (10:43 UTC)
In effect from: May 23, 2010, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired: May 23, 2010, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

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

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:41 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 396 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 329 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 23, 3:17 AM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 3:17 AM MDT, 1 hour 26 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 23, 4:01 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	ABQ		18 hr
May 23, 4:43 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ		10 hr
May 23, 2:47 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ		27 hr
May 23, 5:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	29 min
May 23, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	26 min
May 23, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	48 min
May 23, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	33 min
May 23, 5:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	50 min
May 23, 5:58 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	32 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.