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Red Flag Warning 25, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 11, 20235 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Apr 11, 2023, 2:01 PM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 12, 2023, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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
Apr 11, 2023, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 12, 2023, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 12, 2023, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

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

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 437 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-04-11Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-04-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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 Apr 11, 11:31 AM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 11:31 AM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 11, 10:46 AM MDTRiver Flood AdvisoryABQSandoval22 hr
Apr 11, 2:01 PM MDTFire Weather WatchABQBernalillo, Catron, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe and 12 more25 hr
Apr 11, 4:51 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLincoln114 min
Apr 11, 4:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLincoln32 min

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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.