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Red Flag Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Apr 28, 2016, 3:39 AM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 28, 2016, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 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 28, 2016, 3:39 AM MDT (09:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 28, 2016, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2016, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:39 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
952 WWUS85 KABQ 280939 RFWABQ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 339 AM MDT THU APR 28 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM TO 7 PM MDT TODAY FOR THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...SANDIA... MANZANO AND GALLINAS MOUNTAINS AND THE EAST CENTRAL PLAINS DUE TO STRONG WIND AND LOW HUMIDITY... .WINDS WILL INCREASE ONCE AGAIN AS THE NEXT IN A SERIES OF PACIFIC STORM SYSTEMS APPROACHES THE FOUR CORNERS REGION. LOW HUMIDITY...STRONG SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST WINDS AND MODERATE TO HIGH HAINES INDICES WILL ALIGN WITH GREATEST AREAL EXTENT AND FOR THE LONGEST DURATION THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING FROM THE MIDDLE AND LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY EASTWARD TO THE HIGH PLAINS OF EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO TO EXCLUDE THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE SANDIA...MANZANO AND GALLINAS MOUNTAINS. NMZ106>108-290100- /O.UPG.KABQ.FW.A.0026.160428T1900Z-160429T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KABQ.FW.W.0021.160428T1900Z-160429T0100Z/ MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANDIA...MANZANO AND GALLINAS MOUNTAINS- EAST CENTRAL PLAINS- 339 AM MDT THU APR 28 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 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 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AREA AND TIMING...MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY...SANDIA...MANZANO AND GALLINAS MOUNTAINS BELOW 8500 FEET...EAST CENTRAL PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. * 20 FOOT WINDS...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...RANGING FROM 8 TO 15 PERCENT. * IMPACTS...ANY FIRES THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY SPREAD RAPIDLY. OUTDOOR BURNING IS NOT RECOMMENDED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:38 PM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | ABQ | 30 hr | |
| Apr 28, 5:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 31 min |
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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.