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High Wind Watch 7, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 12, 202518 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this high wind watch at Mar 12, 2025, 3:08 AM MDT for 18 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 13, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 12, 2025, 3:08 AM MDT (09:08 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 13, 2025, 6:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 13, 2025, 11:49 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 watch went out at Mar 11, 11:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 11:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 12, 3:13 AM MDTWinter Storm WatchABQColfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos11 hr
Mar 12, 3:46 AM MDTRed Flag WarningABQBernalillo, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 11 more40 hr
Mar 12, 1:21 PM MDTHigh Wind WarningABQBernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca and 13 more53 hr
Mar 12, 1:56 PM MDTFire Weather WatchABQCurry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt25 hr
Mar 12, 2:06 PM MDTWinter Storm WarningABQColfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos52 hr
Mar 12, 2:06 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryABQBernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 5 more39 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.