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Freeze Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 2, 2022Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this freeze warning at May 2, 2022, 2:55 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at May 3, 2022, 4:00 AM 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: May 2, 2022, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
In effect from: May 3, 2022, 4:00 AM MDT
Expired: May 3, 2022, 9:00 AM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 347 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 474 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 651 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at May 2, 12:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 12:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 10:37 AM MDT, 4 hours 18 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
May 1, 6:14 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan	91 min
May 1, 6:16 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan	89 min
May 1, 6:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	48 min
May 1, 7:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	28 min
May 1, 7:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	25 min
May 2, 1:46 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance	13 hr
May 2, 3:38 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Catron, Harding, San Miguel, Socorro, Union	11 hr
May 2, 3:38 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 6 more	29 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New Mexico, 2022 Every freeze warning in 2022

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.