Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
- 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
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. && $$ 44
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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.