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Wind Advisory 42, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 5, 20235 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at May 5, 2023, 1:25 AM MDT for 5 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 5, 2023, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2023, 1:25 AM MDT (07:25 UTC)
In effect from: May 5, 2023, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 5, 2023, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 462 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: 3803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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 May 4, 2:28 PM MDT, 10 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 4, 2:28 PM MDT, 10 hours 57 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
May 5, 3:04 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 11 more	35 hr
May 5, 6:49 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	17 days
May 5, 8:57 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	10 days
May 5, 1:54 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca and 18 more	30 hr

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.