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Extreme Cold Warning 1, NWS Albuquerque, NM

January 20, 202523 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this extreme cold warning at Jan 20, 2025, 2:41 AM MST for 23 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 20, 2025, 11:14 AM MST. It was in force for 24 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
Jan 20, 2025, 2:41 AM MST (09:41 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 20, 2025, 11:14 AM MST
Expired
Jan 21, 2025, 11:00 AM MST
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
All 23 counties

Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:43 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 376 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 2025-01-20Temperature 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 2025-01-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 181 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2564 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
246 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
Jan 20, 12:55 PM MSTSnow Squall WarningABQCurry, Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel50 min
Jan 20, 1:45 PM MSTSnow Squall WarningABQCurry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt30 min
Jan 20, 2:17 PM MSTSnow Squall Warning Significant damage threatABQCurry, De Baca, Roosevelt28 min

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.