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Fire Weather Watch 8, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 20, 20215 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this fire weather watch at Mar 20, 2021, 3:13 AM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 21, 2021, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 20, 2021, 3:13 AM MDT (09:13 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 21, 2021, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired: Mar 21, 2021, 6:14 AM MDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Mar 20, 3:02 AM MDT, 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 3:02 AM MDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 20, 2:24 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval, Socorro, Valencia	29 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.