Alert archive / New Mexico / Winter Storm Warnings in 2020
Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this winter storm warning at Mar 18, 2020, 3:31 AM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 18, 2020, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 21 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
- Mar 18, 2020, 3:31 AM MDT (09:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 18, 2020, 6:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2020, 2:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Colfax County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:36 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 422 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
- 3379 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 18, 3:05 AM MDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 18, 3:05 AM MDT, 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:31 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | ABQ | Catron, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan, Socorro | 35 hr |
| Mar 18, 2:27 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln, Mora and 6 more | 13 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in New Mexico, 2020Every winter storm warning in 2020
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.