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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this winter storm warning at Mar 20, 2022, 3:51 PM MDT for Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 21, 2022, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 18 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
- Mar 20, 2022, 3:51 PM MDT (21:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 21, 2022, 6:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2022, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 377 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
- 3161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 20, 3:34 PM MDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 3:34 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2:41 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Harding, Quay, Union | 12 hr |
| Mar 20, 3:51 PM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, Los Alamos and 10 more | 38 hr |
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.