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Red Flag Warning 15, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 30, 202511 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Mar 30, 2025, 12:56 PM MST for 11 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 31, 2025, 1:00 PM MST. It was in force for 6 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: Mar 30, 2025, 12:56 PM MST (19:56 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 31, 2025, 1:00 PM MST
Expired: Mar 31, 2025, 7:00 PM MST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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 red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 30, 10:21 AM MST, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 10:21 AM MST, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 12:44 AM MST	High Wind Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry and 19 more	35 hr
Mar 30, 12:56 PM MST	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 11 more	14 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.