Alert archive / New Mexico / Red Flag Warnings in 2020
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Apr 23, 2020, 2:56 AM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 23, 2020, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 5 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 23, 2020, 2:56 AM MDT (08:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 23, 2020, 2:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2020, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 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 08:53 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, 8.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
509 WWUS85 KABQ 230856 RFWABQ URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Albuquerque NM 256 AM MDT Thu Apr 23 2020 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO DUE TO STRONG WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES... .Strong northwest flow aloft today will mix down to the surface resulting in breezy to windy conditions mainly along and south of I-40. Relative humidities will be near and below 15 percent and temperatures will be above normal. Instability will be lacking with just low to moderate Haines values. NMZ105-109-231000- /O.CAN.KABQ.FW.A.0010.200423T2000Z-200424T0100Z/ Northwest Highlands-West Central Highlands- 256 AM MDT Thu Apr 23 2020 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Albuquerque has cancelled the Fire Weather Watch. $$ NMZ106>108-240100- /O.UPG.KABQ.FW.A.0010.200423T2000Z-200424T0100Z/ /O.NEW.KABQ.FW.W.0013.200423T2000Z-200424T0100Z/ Middle Rio Grande Valley-Sandia, Manzano and Gallinas Mountains- East Central Plains- 256 AM MDT Thu Apr 23 2020 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING... The National Weather Service in Albuquerque has issued a Red Flag Warning...which is in effect from 2 PM this afternoon to 7 PM MDT this evening. The Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect. * AREA AND TIMING...Middle Rio Grande Valley, the Sandia, Manzano and Gallinas Mountains and the East Central Plains this afternoon through early this evening. * 20 FOOT WINDS...West to Northwest at 20 to 30 mph with gusts of 40 to 50 mph. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...10 to 15 percent below any snowpack. * IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly. Outdoor burning is not recommended. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Please advise the appropriate officials or fire crews in the field of this Red Flag Warning. && $$ 40
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 3:01 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Guadalupe, McKinley, Sandoval and 5 more | 14 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.