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High Wind Watch 7, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this high wind watch at Nov 6, 2020, 2:08 PM MST for 7 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Nov 7, 2020, 8:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 6, 2020, 2:08 PM MST (21:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 7, 2020, 8:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Nov 7, 2020, 3:12 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 441 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
- 2802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 399 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Nov 6, 10:34 AM MST, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 10:34 AM MST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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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.