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Wind Advisory 19, NWS Albuquerque, NM

February 26, 20237 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Feb 26, 2023, 2:32 PM MST for 7 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Feb 27, 2023, 1:00 AM MST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 26, 2023, 2:32 PM MST (21:32 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 27, 2023, 1:00 AM MST
Expired: Feb 27, 2023, 5:00 PM MST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 319 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: 2977 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 26, 10:44 AM MST, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 10:44 AM MST, 3 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 26, 2:05 PM MST, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 26, 2:11 PM MST, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 26, 2:20 PM MST, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 26, 2:22 PM MST, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 26, 2:28 PM MST, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 26, 2:32 PM MST, 0 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, 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, 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

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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.