Alert archive / New Mexico / Freeze Warnings in 2021
Freeze Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this freeze warning at Oct 15, 2021, 1:58 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Oct 15, 2021, 10:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Oct 15, 2021, 1:58 PM MDT (19:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 15, 2021, 10:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2021, 8:13 AM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 95 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
296 WWUS75 KABQ 151958 NPWABQ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Albuquerque NM 158 PM MDT Fri Oct 15 2021 NMZ230-234>236-160400- /O.NEW.KABQ.FZ.W.0004.211016T0400Z-211016T1600Z/ Union County-Quay County-Curry County-Roosevelt County- 158 PM MDT Fri Oct 15 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM MDT SATURDAY... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 32 expected. * WHERE...Curry County, Quay County, Roosevelt County and Union County. * WHEN...From 10 PM this evening to 10 AM MDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. && $$ 33
2 follow-up statements
516 WWUS75 KABQ 160243 NPWABQ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Albuquerque NM 843 PM MDT Fri Oct 15 2021 NMZ230-234>236-161600- /O.CON.KABQ.FZ.W.0004.211016T0400Z-211016T1600Z/ Union County-Quay County-Curry County-Roosevelt County- 843 PM MDT Fri Oct 15 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM MDT SATURDAY... * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures between 29 and 32 degrees are expected. * WHERE...Curry County, Quay County, Roosevelt County and Union County. * WHEN...Until 10 AM MDT Saturday. * IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor plumbing. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. To prevent water pipes from freezing, wrap, drain or allow them to drip slowly. && $$
144 WWUS75 KABQ 161413 NPWABQ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Albuquerque NM 813 AM MDT Sat Oct 16 2021 NMZ230-234>236-161515- /O.CAN.KABQ.FZ.W.0004.000000T0000Z-211016T1600Z/ Union County-Quay County-Curry County-Roosevelt County- 813 AM MDT Sat Oct 16 2021 ...FREEZE WARNING IS CANCELLED... Temperatures have warmed above freezing and will continue to warm throughout the morning hours. Freezing temperatures are no longer expected. $$ DPorter
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.