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Red Flag Warning 11, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Mar 23, 2024, 2:17 PM MDT for 7 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 24, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 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 23, 2024, 2:17 PM MDT (20:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 24, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2024, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 23, 2:16 PM MDT, 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 23, 2:16 PM MDT, 1 minute before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2:03 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 7 more | 41 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:18 AM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Taos | 12 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:19 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt, San Miguel and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:11 PM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora and 8 more | 61 hr |
| Mar 23, 2:14 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Colfax, Lincoln, Mora, Sandoval and 5 more | 29 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.