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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this winter storm warning at Jan 23, 2023, 2:48 AM MST for 15 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 23, 2023, 6:00 PM MST. It was in force for 18 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 23, 2023, 2:48 AM MST (09:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 23, 2023, 6:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2023, 12:00 PM MST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4263 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 23, 2:46 AM MST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 2:46 AM MST, 2 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2:37 AM MST | High Wind Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Cibola, Sandoval, Torrance, Valencia | 19 hr |
| Jan 23, 2:37 AM MST | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe | 17 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in New Mexico, 2023Every winter storm warning in 2023
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.