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Red Flag Warning 10, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 12, 20244 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Mar 12, 2024, 2:34 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 13, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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 12, 2024, 2:34 PM MDT (20:34 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 13, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 13, 2024, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 317 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-03-12Temperature 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-03-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2021 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 2:20 AM MDTFire Weather WatchABQCurry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt12 hr
Mar 12, 3:42 PM MDTWinter Storm WatchABQBernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Los Alamos, McKinley and 11 more35 hr
Mar 12, 3:42 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryABQCatron, Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Socorro and 1 more35 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.