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Wind Advisory 29, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at May 5, 2024, 3:53 AM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 5, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 2024, 3:53 AM MDT (09:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 5, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 6, 2024, 2:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:54 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3265 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 5, 3:38 AM MDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 5, 3:38 AM MDT, 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 6:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Torrance | 25 min |
| May 4, 7:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Torrance | 30 min |
| May 5, 3:53 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos and 2 more | 9 hr |
| May 5, 6:40 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca and 18 more | 22 hr |
| May 5, 6:40 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca and 18 more | 38 hr |
| May 5, 1:06 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos and 2 more | 21 hr |
| May 5, 1:20 PM MDT | River Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 21 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.