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Red Flag Warning 47, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at May 18, 2022, 2:38 PM MDT for 12 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 20, 2022, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 11 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 18, 2022, 2:38 PM MDT (20:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 20, 2022, 10:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 20, 2022, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Harding County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 444 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
- 4122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 May 17, 2:44 PM MDT, 23 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 17, 2:44 PM MDT, 23 hours 54 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:30 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 3 more | 11 hr |
| May 18, 5:23 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan and 2 more | 41 hr |
| May 18, 2:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 28 min |
| May 18, 3:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 30 min |
| May 18, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 55 min |
| May 18, 4:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 40 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.