Alert archive / New Mexico / Freeze Warnings in 2023

Freeze Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 3, 2023Rio Arriba County, Taos County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this freeze warning at Oct 3, 2023, 2:01 PM MDT for Rio Arriba County, Taos County, New Mexico. It took effect at Oct 4, 2023, 3:00 AM MDT. 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: Oct 3, 2023, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 4, 2023, 3:00 AM MDT
Expired: Oct 4, 2023, 8:00 AM MDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Rio Arriba County, NM, Taos County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 2, 5:48 PM MDT, 20 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 5:48 PM MDT, 20 hours 13 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 2, 6:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	26 min
Oct 2, 6:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	36 min
Oct 2, 6:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, Roosevelt	112 min
Oct 2, 6:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	29 min
Oct 2, 6:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	28 min
Oct 2, 6:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel	66 min
Oct 2, 6:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	44 min
Oct 2, 6:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt	62 min
Oct 2, 7:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	24 min
Oct 2, 7:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	34 min
Oct 2, 7:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt, San Miguel	61 min
Oct 2, 8:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	28 min
Oct 2, 8:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	36 min
Oct 3, 1:24 AM MDT	Freeze Watch	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	13 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New Mexico, 2023 Every freeze warning in 2023

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.