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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM

January 19, 2023Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this winter storm warning at Jan 19, 2023, 1:31 PM MST for Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 20, 2023, 2:00 PM MST. It was in force for 21 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
Jan 19, 2023, 1:31 PM MST (20:31 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 20, 2023, 2:00 PM MST
Expired
Jan 21, 2023, 11:00 AM MST
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 393 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-01-19Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2023-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -166 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 2:39 AM MSTWinter Storm WatchABQColfax, Union11 hr
Jan 19, 1:31 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryABQCatron, Cibola, Colfax, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora and 8 more39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.