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Wind Advisory 38, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 20, 202311 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Apr 20, 2023, 1:02 AM MDT for 11 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 20, 2023, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 20, 2023, 1:02 AM MDT (07:02 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 20, 2023, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 20, 2023, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2023-04-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2023-04-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
4768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 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 Apr 19, 11:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 11:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 20, 2:34 PM MDTFreeze WarningABQBernalillo, Cibola, Guadalupe, Quay, Sandoval, San Miguel and 2 more18 hr
Apr 20, 3:04 PM MDTFire Weather WatchABQBernalillo, Colfax, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Mora, San Miguel and 4 more12 hr

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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.