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Red Flag Warning 34, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 4, 202323 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at May 4, 2023, 3:01 AM MDT for 23 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 5, 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: May 4, 2023, 3:01 AM MDT (09:01 UTC)
In effect from: May 5, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 5, 2023, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

All 23 counties

Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln 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, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:00 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3383 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 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 May 4, 2:39 AM MDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:39 AM MDT, 22 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
May 3, 6:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	28 min
May 3, 6:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		24 min
May 3, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	37 min
May 3, 7:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	30 min
May 3, 7:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	28 min
May 3, 7:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	24 min
May 3, 7:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	36 min
May 3, 7:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	27 min
May 3, 8:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	27 min
May 4, 3:01 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca and 18 more	35 hr
May 4, 7:35 AM MDT	River Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	23 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.