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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 20, 2022Harding County, Quay County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this high wind watch at Mar 20, 2022, 2:41 PM MDT for Harding County, Quay County, Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 21, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 20, 2022, 2:41 PM MDT (20:41 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 21, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 21, 2022, 2:46 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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 high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Mar 20, 12:04 PM MDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 12:04 PM MDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 20, 3:51 PM MDTWinter Storm WarningABQColfax, Union32 hr
Mar 20, 3:51 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryABQBernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos and 10 more38 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in New Mexico, 2022Every high wind watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.