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Red Flag Warning 35, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 1, 2022Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at May 1, 2022, 2:52 PM MDT for Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at May 2, 2022, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 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 1, 2022, 2:52 PM MDT (20:52 UTC)
In effect from
May 2, 2022, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 2, 2022, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
10 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 20:55 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, 8.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2022-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2022-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 212 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2905 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 May 1, 11:42 AM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 11:42 AM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 2:19 AM MDTWind AdvisoryABQCatron, Cibola, Colfax, McKinley, Mora, San Juan and 4 more18 hr
May 1, 2:15 PM MDTDust Storm AdvisoryABQMcKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan60 min
May 1, 2:52 PM MDTFire Weather WatchABQBernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 6 more25 hr
May 1, 3:18 PM MDTDust Storm AdvisoryABQMcKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan57 min
May 1, 4:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt28 min
May 1, 4:17 PM MDTDust Storm AdvisoryABQMcKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan28 min
May 1, 4:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe48 min
May 1, 4:46 PM MDTDust Storm AdvisoryABQMcKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan89 min
May 1, 4:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, Union42 min

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2022Every red flag 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.