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High Wind Warning 20, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 7, 20248 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this high wind warning at May 7, 2024, 2:26 AM MDT for 8 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 7, 2024, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 11 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
May 7, 2024, 2:26 AM MDT (08:26 UTC)
In effect from
May 7, 2024, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 7, 2024, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:30 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2024-05-07Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2024-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
4271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
94 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 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 May 6, 11:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 11:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 2:26 AM MDTWind AdvisoryABQBernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe and 12 more18 hr
May 7, 2:01 PM MDTRed Flag WarningABQColfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.