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Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 19, 2012Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Mar 19, 2012, 4:17 AM MDT for Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 19, 2012, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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
Mar 19, 2012, 4:17 AM MDT (10:17 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 19, 2012, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 19, 2012, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
7 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 10:17 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 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 225 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2012-03-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2012-03-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
4154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

172 
WWUS85 KABQ 191017
RFWABQ

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
417 AM MDT MON MAR 19 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL EARLY EVENING FOR EASTERN
PARTS OF THE NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS AND THE EASTERN PLAINS DUE TO
STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES...

.ALTHOUGH WIND SPEEDS ALOFT WILL GRADUALLY WEAKEN TODAY...A DEEP
SURFACE LOW IN SOUTHEAST COLORADO WILL CAUSE SOUTHWEST WINDS TO
GUST AROUND 45 MPH ACROSS NEW MEXICOS EASTERN PLAINS. HUMIDITIES WILL
ALSO DROP IN THE WAKE OF A COLD FRONT THAT CROSSED OVERNIGHT AND
AS A RESULT OF DOWNSLOPE FLOW. HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE WARNING
AREA WILL REMAIN 4 TO 15 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.

NMZ103-104-108-200200-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FW.W.0018.120319T1900Z-120320T0200Z/
NEW MEXICO FIRE WEATHER ZONE 103
NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS/EASTERN CARSON AND SANTA FE NF/SNZ-TAZ-
NEW MEXICO FIRE WEATHER ZONE 104
NORTHEAST PLAINS/EASTERN KIOWA AND RITA BLANCA GRASSLANDS/ABZ-TNZ-
NEW MEXICO FIRE WEATHER ZONE 108
EAST CENTRAL PLAINS/WESTERN KIOWA GRASSLANDS BLM/ABZ-SNZ-
417 AM MDT MON MAR 19 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM
MDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT
THIS EVENING. 

* AREA AND TIMING...IN THE NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS ALONG AND EAST OF
  I-25...AND ALSO ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS. WIND SPEEDS WILL
  REACH CRITICAL THRESHOLDS BY LATE MORNING...BUT HUMIDITIES WILL
  NOT DROP BELOW 15 PERCENT UNTIL THE EARLY AFTERNOON. THE LOWEST
  HUMIDITIES AND STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR FROM 4 TO 6 PM.

* 20 FOOT WINDS...20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH.

* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...11 TO 23 PERCENT. THE MOST WIDESPREAD
  CRITICAL VALUES WILL BE FOUND ALONG AND EAST OF I-25 FROM WAGON
  MOUND TO RATON...AND ALONG AND NORTH OF I-40 FROM SANTA ROSA TO
  THE TEXAS BORDER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE
FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING.

&&

$$

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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.