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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM

January 20, 2012Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Jan 20, 2012, 3:59 AM MST for Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 20, 2012, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 9 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
Jan 20, 2012, 3:59 AM MST (10:59 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 20, 2012, 10:00 AM MST
Expired
Jan 20, 2012, 7:00 PM MST
In force
9 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 11:02 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, 11.0 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 2012-01-20Temperature 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 2012-01-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 236 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3351 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
538 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.

287 
WWUS85 KABQ 201059
RFWABQ

URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
359 AM MST FRI JAN 20 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM MST
THIS EVENING DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES FOR THE EAST
CENTRAL PLAINS AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE NORTHEAST PLAINS...

.DEEPENING SURFACE LOW PRESSURE FROM EASTERN COLORADO ACROSS
EASTERN NEW MEXICO...STRONG UPPER ATMOSPHERE WINDS...AND
CONTINUED LOW HUMIDITIES WILL CREATE RED FLAG CONDITIONS FROM LATE
THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY EVENING ACROSS THE EAST CENTRAL
PLAINS...AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE NORTHEAST PLAINS. CONDITIONS
WILL BE MOST SEVERE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WATROUS MOUND TO
LOGAN...OR FROM THE INTERSTATE 40 CORRIDOR SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE
EASTERN PLAINS. HUMIDITIES WILL RECOVER INTO THE 20S PCT BY EARLY
EVENING FRIDAY TO EASE THE FIRE WEATHER DANGER.

NMZ104-108-210200-
/O.UPG.KABQ.FW.A.0002.120120T1700Z-120121T0200Z/
/O.NEW.KABQ.FW.W.0002.120120T1700Z-120121T0200Z/
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-
359 AM MST FRI JAN 20 2012

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM MST
THIS EVENING DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM MST
THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

* AREA AND TIMING...THE EAST CENTRAL PLAINS...AND THE NORTHEAST
  PLAINS MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WATROUS TO LOGAN. THIS
  INCLUDES MOSTLY AREAS ALONG INTERSTATE 40...AND SOUTHWARD OVER
  THE EASTERN PLAINS. RED FLAG CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP BY LATE
  THIS MORNING...BECOME MOST SEVERE THROUGH MID AFTERNOON...AND
  CONTINUE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. RED FLAG CONDITIONS WILL EASE
  AFTER SUNSET THIS EVENING.

* 20 FOOT WINDS...INCREASING TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH BY
  LATE MORNING. WINDS LOCALLY STRONGER AT TIMES DURING THE MID
  AFTERNOON.

* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...9 TO 14 PCT...DRIEST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 
  40.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

$$

SHY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 20, 3:47 AM MSTWind AdvisoryABQ16 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.