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Wind Advisory 15, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 13, 2024Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Mar 13, 2024, 2:27 AM MDT for Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 13, 2024, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 13, 2024, 2:27 AM MDT (08:27 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 13, 2024, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 13, 2024, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Chaves County, NM, Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:30 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2024-03-13Temperature 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2024-03-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4456 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 12, 11:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 11:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 13, 2:27 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchABQBernalillo, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, Socorro, Torrance and 1 more24 hr
Mar 13, 4:19 PM MDTWinter Storm WarningABQBernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Los Alamos, McKinley and 11 more4 days

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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.