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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 1, 202412 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Mar 1, 2024, 2:39 PM MST for 12 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 3, 2024, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 9 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 1, 2024, 2:39 PM MST (21:39 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 3, 2024, 10:00 AM MST
Expired: Mar 3, 2024, 7:00 PM MST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 1, 2:24 PM MST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 2:24 PM MST, 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 1, 9:44 AM MST, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 1, 9:46 AM MST, 4 hours 53 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 2:24 AM MST	High Wind Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, McKinley, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Juan and 4 more	23 hr
Mar 1, 3:24 AM MST	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 11 more	40 hr
Mar 1, 2:21 PM MST	Wind Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln and 12 more	53 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in New Mexico, 2024 Every red flag warning in 2024

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.