Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 3:47 AM MST | Wind Advisory | ABQ | 16 hr |
Nearby
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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.