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Red Flag Warning 56, NWS Albuquerque, NM

November 28, 2022Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Nov 28, 2022, 8:49 AM MST for Harding County, San Miguel County, Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at Nov 28, 2022, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 5 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
Nov 28, 2022, 8:49 AM MST (15:49 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 28, 2022, 12:00 PM MST
Expired
Nov 28, 2022, 5:00 PM MST
In force
5 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 15:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 252 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-11-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2022-11-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 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
4270 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 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 Nov 28, 4:48 AM MST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 28, 4:48 AM MST, 4 hours 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 28, 1:46 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryABQRio Arriba, Taos37 hr
Nov 28, 2:35 AM MSTWind AdvisoryABQColfax, Lincoln, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more14 hr
Nov 28, 4:45 PM MSTHigh Wind WarningABQBernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe and 11 more24 hr
Nov 28, 4:45 PM MSTWind AdvisoryABQBernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry and 18 more24 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.