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Snow Squall Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM

February 26, 20237 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this snow squall warning at Feb 26, 2023, 10:45 AM MST for 7 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 45 min. 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, 10:45 AM MST (17:45 UTC)
Expired: Feb 26, 2023, 11:30 AM MST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 337 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2248 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 273 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 snow squall 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 snow squall warning went out at Feb 26, 10:44 AM MST, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 10:44 AM MST, 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 26, 10:40 AM MST, 5 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
Feb 26, 2:00 AM MST	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 6 more	17 hr
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, 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.