Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 22, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Apr 5, 2012, 5:01 AM MST for 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 5, 2012, 12:00 PM MST. 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
- Apr 5, 2012, 5:01 AM MST (12:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 5, 2012, 12:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2012, 7:00 PM MST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Cibola County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, Sandoval County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:58 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 2602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
403 WWUS85 KABQ 051201 RFWABQ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 601 AM MDT THU APR 5 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1PM TO 8 PM TODAY FOR FAR WEST CENTRAL AND FAR NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND VERY LOW HUMIDITY... ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP NEAR AND WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE THIS AFTERNOON AND LIKELY PERSIST INTO THE EARLY EVENING. OF PARTICULAR CONCERN WILL BE AREAS NEAR THE ARIZONA/NEW MEXICO STATE LINE AND THE IMMEDIATE FOUR CORNERS REGION. ALTHOUGH FIRE POTENTIAL AND THE STATUS OF FUELS VARY GREATLY IN THE WARNED ZONES...THE PRECIPITATION EVENT EARLIER THIS WEEK HAD LITTLE OR NO POSITIVE IMPACT ON AREAS WEST OF THE DIVIDE. THUS...THE COMBINATION OF INCREASING WIND AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL LIKELY RESULT IN SEVERAL HOURS OF RED FLAG CONDITIONS. NMZ101-105-060200- /O.NEW.KABQ.FW.W.0022.120405T1900Z-120406T0200Z/ NEW MEXICO FIRE WEATHER ZONE 101 NORTHWEST PLATEAU/FARMINGTON BLM/ABZ- NEW MEXICO FIRE WEATHER ZONE 105 NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS/WESTERN CIBOLA NF/ABZ- 601 AM MDT THU APR 5 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...CRITICAL CONDITIONS AFFECTING WESTERN PORTIONS OF ZONE 101 AND ZONE 105...GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. MAIN IMPACT WINDOW DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. * 20 FOOT WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...10 TO 15 PERCENT AT THE LOWER ELEVATIONS...15 TO 20 PERCENT AT THE UPPER ELEVATIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. && $$ KJ
1 follow-up statement
879 WWUS85 KABQ 051202 CCA RFWABQ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 602 AM MDT THU APR 5 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM TODAY FOR FAR WEST CENTRAL AND FAR NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND VERY LOW HUMIDITY... .CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP NEAR AND WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE THIS AFTERNOON AND LIKELY PERSIST INTO THE EARLY EVENING. OF PARTICULAR CONCERN WILL BE AREAS NEAR THE ARIZONA/NEW MEXICO STATE LINE AND THE IMMEDIATE FOUR CORNERS REGION. ALTHOUGH FIRE POTENTIAL AND THE STATUS OF FUELS VARY GREATLY IN THE WARNED ZONES...THE PRECIPITATION EVENT EARLIER THIS WEEK HAD LITTLE OR NO POSITIVE IMPACT ON AREAS WEST OF THE DIVIDE. THUS...THE COMBINATION OF INCREASING WIND AND LOW HUMIDITY WILL LIKELY RESULT IN SEVERAL HOURS OF RED FLAG CONDITIONS. NMZ101-105-060200- /O.NEW.KABQ.FW.W.0022.120405T1900Z-120406T0200Z/ NEW MEXICO FIRE WEATHER ZONE 101 NORTHWEST PLATEAU/FARMINGTON BLM/ABZ- NEW MEXICO FIRE WEATHER ZONE 105 NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS/WESTERN CIBOLA NF/ABZ- 602 AM MDT THU APR 5 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * AREA AND TIMING...CRITICAL CONDITIONS AFFECTING WESTERN PORTIONS OF ZONE 101 AND ZONE 105...GENERALLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. MAIN IMPACT WINDOW DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. * 20 FOOT WINDS...SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...10 TO 15 PERCENT AT THE LOWER ELEVATIONS...15 TO 20 PERCENT AT THE UPPER ELEVATIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. && $$ KJ
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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.