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High Wind Watch 8, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 20, 202225 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this high wind watch at Apr 20, 2022, 2:39 PM MDT for 25 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 22, 2022, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 20, 2022, 2:39 PM MDT (20:39 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 22, 2022, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired: Apr 21, 2022, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

All 25 counties

Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Roosevelt 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, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 104 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 Apr 20, 11:24 AM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 11:24 AM MDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 20, 11:05 AM MDT, 3 hours 34 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
Apr 20, 3:17 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel, Union	11 hr
Apr 20, 2:32 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 6 more	13 hr
Apr 20, 2:32 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel, Union	30 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.