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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this high wind watch at Jan 10, 2024, 3:27 AM MST for Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 10, 2024, 8:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2024, 3:27 AM MST (10:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 10, 2024, 8:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2024, 1:41 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Chaves County, NM, Lincoln County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:30 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 3138 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 watch went out at Jan 9, 10:16 PM MST, 5 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 10:16 PM MST, 5 hours 11 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 10, 1:36 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora and 7 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 10, 1:41 PM MST | High Wind Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 36 hr |
| Jan 10, 1:41 PM MST | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Lincoln, McKinley and 7 more | 36 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.