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Wind Advisory 10, NWS Albuquerque, NM

February 6, 202411 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Feb 6, 2024, 1:57 PM MST for 11 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Feb 7, 2024, 9:00 AM MST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 6, 2024, 1:57 PM MST (20:57 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 7, 2024, 9:00 AM MST
Expired
Feb 7, 2024, 6:00 PM MST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 273 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-02-06Temperature 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-02-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2161 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 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
Feb 6, 1:47 AM MSTWinter Storm WarningABQCatron, Colfax, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and 4 more51 hr
Feb 6, 1:47 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryABQCatron, Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan and 2 more45 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.