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High Wind Warning 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 30, 20247 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this high wind warning at Mar 30, 2024, 1:32 PM MDT for 7 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 30, 2024, 11:47 PM MDT. It was in force for 20 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
Mar 30, 2024, 1:32 PM MDT (19:32 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 30, 2024, 11:47 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 31, 2024, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
20 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 319 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-03-30Temperature 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
2900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 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 high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Mar 30, 11:27 AM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 11:27 AM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 1:29 AM MDTRed Flag WarningABQColfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 6 more42 hr
Mar 30, 1:32 PM MDTWind AdvisoryABQBernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding and 12 more30 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.