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Winter Storm Warning 8, NWS Albuquerque, NM

February 28, 202316 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this winter storm warning at Feb 28, 2023, 7:24 PM MST for 16 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 1, 2023, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 36 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: Feb 28, 2023, 7:24 PM MST (02:24 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 1, 2023, 5:00 AM MST
Expired: Mar 2, 2023, 5:00 PM MST
In force: 36 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:21 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 3181 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 383 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 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 Feb 28, 4:21 PM MST, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 4:21 PM MST, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 28, 3:14 PM MST, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 28, 3:16 PM MST, 4 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 28, 6:12 PM MST, 1 hour 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
612 PM MST TUE FEB 28 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1216 PM     HIGH SUST WINDS  3 S CAPULIN             36.70N 104.00W
02/26/2023  M48 MPH          UNION              NM   PUBLIC

            DELAYED LSR: PRIVATE WEATHER STATION -
            KNMDESMO6.

&&

RJH

Local storm report, Feb 28, 6:13 PM MST, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
613 PM MST TUE FEB 28 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1130 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 S CAPULIN             36.70N 104.00W
02/26/2023  M66 MPH          UNION              NM   PUBLIC

            DELAYED LSR: PRIVATE WEATHER STATION -
            KNMDESMO6.

&&

RJH

Local storm report, Feb 28, 6:34 PM MST, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
634 PM MST TUE FEB 28 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0313 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 ENE CLOVIS            34.42N 103.16W
02/26/2023  M90 MPH          CURRY              NM   MESONET

            DELAYED LSR: CWOP STATION GW0819 CLOVIS.

&&

RJH

Local storm report, Feb 28, 6:43 PM MST, 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
643 PM MST TUE FEB 28 2023

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1230 PM     HIGH SUST WINDS  6 NNE TINNIE            33.45N 105.20W
02/26/2023  M47 MPH          LINCOLN            NM   PUBLIC

            DELAYED LSR: PRIVATE WEATHER STATION
            KNMTINNI2.

&&

RJH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 28, 5:50 PM MST	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt, Sandoval and 2 more	24 hr
Mar 1, 2:15 AM MST	Wind Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Lincoln, Sandoval, San Miguel and 4 more	18 hr
Mar 1, 2:27 AM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, McKinley and 11 more	39 hr
Mar 1, 2:22 PM MST	High Wind Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	28 hr
Mar 1, 2:22 PM MST	Wind Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, Socorro and 2 more	28 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.