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High Wind Warning 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this high wind warning at Apr 16, 2025, 2:50 PM MDT for 18 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 17, 2025, 7:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 14 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
- Apr 16, 2025, 2:50 PM MDT (20:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 17, 2025, 7:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2025, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba 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 20:49 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2196 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Apr 16, 12:03 PM MDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 12:03 PM MDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2:28 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln and 10 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:50 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Curry, De Baca and 13 more | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.