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Red Flag Warning 29, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Apr 17, 2023, 2:59 PM MDT for 20 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 18, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 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 17, 2023, 2:59 PM MDT (20:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 18, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2023, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 355 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
- 2355 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 17, 2:46 PM MDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 2:46 PM MDT, 13 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 3:33 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca and 18 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:30 PM MDT | River Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval | 42 hr |
| Apr 17, 3:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 3:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 4:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 31 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.