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Winter Storm Watch 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this winter storm watch at Dec 29, 2021, 1:37 PM MST for 17 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Dec 30, 2021, 5:00 PM MST. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 29, 2021, 1:37 PM MST (20:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 30, 2021, 5:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Dec 30, 2021, 8:53 PM MST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 390 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
- 1764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 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 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 winter storm watch went out at Dec 28, 4:44 PM MST, 20 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 4:44 PM MST, 20 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 1:33 AM MST | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel, Union | 15 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in New Mexico, 2021Every winter storm watch in 2021
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.