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Red Flag Warning 11, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 10, 20234 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Mar 10, 2023, 5:40 AM MST for 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 10, 2023, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 6 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 10, 2023, 5:40 AM MST (12:40 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 10, 2023, 11:00 AM MST
Expired: Mar 10, 2023, 5:00 PM MST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:46 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.

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 Mar 10, 5:19 AM MST, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 5:19 AM MST, 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 3:05 AM MST	High Wind Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca and 13 more	10 hr
Mar 10, 3:05 AM MST	High Wind Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 7 more	39 hr
Mar 10, 3:05 AM MST	Wind Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln and 12 more	39 hr
Mar 10, 3:13 AM MST	Winter Storm Watch	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	10 hr
Mar 10, 5:40 AM MST	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 10 more	22 hr
Mar 10, 1:21 PM MST	Winter Storm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.