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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Mar 27, 2022, 1:24 PM MDT for Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 28, 2022, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Mar 27, 2022, 1:24 PM MDT (19:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2022, 2:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2022, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Harding County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 3941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 27, 12:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 12:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 1:24 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel, Union | 26 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:57 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 4 more | 25 hr |
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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.