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Red Flag Warning 32, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at May 24, 2024, 9:40 AM MDT for 24 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 25, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 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 24, 2024, 9:40 AM MDT (15:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 25, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 25, 2024, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
All 24 counties
Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:45 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 3278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 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 May 24, 6:01 AM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 6:01 AM MDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:37 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance | 47 hr |
| May 24, 4:37 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 14 hr |
| May 24, 12:48 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 30 hr |
| May 24, 12:48 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Colfax, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 8 more | 30 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.