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Red Flag Warning 48, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 18, 202311 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Jun 18, 2023, 2:33 PM MDT for 11 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Jun 19, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 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: Jun 18, 2023, 2:33 PM MDT (20:33 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 19, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jun 19, 2023, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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 Jun 17, 5:44 PM MDT, 20 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 5:44 PM MDT, 20 hours 49 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
Jun 18, 5:46 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora, San Miguel, Union	13 hr
Jun 18, 1:56 PM MDT	Heat Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	30 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2023 Every red flag 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.