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Dust Storm Warning 49, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this dust storm warning at Apr 27, 2025, 2:44 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 91 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2025, 2:44 PM MDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2025, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 91 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Chaves County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 dust storm 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 dust storm warning went out at Apr 27, 2:33 PM MDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 2:33 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
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Local storm report, Apr 27, 11:19 AM MDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 26, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 65 min |
| Apr 26, 6:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 26 min |
| Apr 26, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay | 64 min |
| Apr 26, 6:35 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 6:46 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 44 min |
| Apr 26, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 38 min |
| Apr 26, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 50 min |
| Apr 26, 7:28 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 21 min |
| Apr 26, 7:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 32 min |
| Apr 26, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 48 min |
| Apr 26, 9:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 117 min |
| Apr 27, 3:36 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 24 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:50 PM MDT | Dust Storm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 55 min |
| Apr 27, 2:58 PM MDT | Dust Storm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 77 min |
| Apr 27, 4:22 PM MDT | Dust Storm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 113 min |
| Apr 27, 4:55 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 5:12 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.