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Red Flag Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Feb 26, 2023, 2:00 AM MST for 12 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Feb 26, 2023, 11:00 AM MST. 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
- Feb 26, 2023, 2:00 AM MST (09:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 26, 2023, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2023, 7:00 PM MST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:04 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 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 1583 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 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 Feb 25, 10:32 PM MST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 10:32 PM MST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 9:08 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, McKinley, San Juan | 37 min |
| Feb 26, 9:44 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, McKinley, San Juan | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 10:12 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan, Socorro | 33 min |
| Feb 26, 10:45 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, Socorro and 1 more | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 11:30 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 2 more | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 12:13 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Torrance, Valencia | 70 min |
| Feb 26, 12:15 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Socorro | 2 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:33 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 87 min |
| Feb 26, 2:31 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt | 89 min |
| Feb 26, 2:32 PM MST | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe and 1 more | 26 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:07 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln | 38 min |
| Feb 26, 3:17 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay and 3 more | 88 min |
| Feb 26, 4:46 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt, San Miguel and 1 more | 59 min |
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.