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Red Flag Warning 45, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at May 17, 2022, 3:34 AM MDT for Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at May 17, 2022, 1:00 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
- May 17, 2022, 3:34 AM MDT (09:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 17, 2022, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 17, 2022, 7:00 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 09:36 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 00:00Z, 9.6 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
- 1624 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
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 17, 3:07 AM MDT, 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:07 AM MDT, 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 6:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Quay | 27 min |
| May 16, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 37 min |
| May 16, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 44 min |
| May 16, 6:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Harding | 50 min |
| May 16, 6:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 27 min |
| May 16, 6:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 35 min |
| May 16, 8:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 35 min |
| May 17, 3:34 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan and 2 more | 26 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.