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Winter Storm Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM

December 27, 202210 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this winter storm warning at Dec 27, 2022, 2:49 AM MST for 10 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Dec 28, 2022, 12:00 AM MST. It was in force for 26 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
Dec 27, 2022, 2:49 AM MST (09:49 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 28, 2022, 12:00 AM MST
Expired
Dec 29, 2022, 1:58 AM MST
In force
26 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:55 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 397 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, Grand Junction, CO at 00:00Z on 2022-12-27Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 00:00Z on 2022-12-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1549 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 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 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 Dec 26, 10:50 PM MST, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 26, 10:50 PM MST, 3 hours 59 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 27, 2:54 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchABQChaves, Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, San Miguel, Taos11 hr
Dec 27, 1:41 PM MSTHigh Wind WarningABQChaves, Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 2 more33 hr
Dec 27, 2:10 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryABQBernalillo, Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 5 more43 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.