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Red Flag Warning 31, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Apr 26, 2022, 2:31 PM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 27, 2022, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Apr 26, 2022, 2:31 PM MDT (20:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 27, 2022, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2022, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 3976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 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 Apr 26, 11:17 AM MDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 11:17 AM MDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 3:53 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan, Socorro | 11 hr |
| Apr 26, 3:53 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel, Union | 15 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:58 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 9 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:31 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Sandoval and 5 more | 24 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.