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Red Flag Warning 19, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 15, 202518 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Apr 15, 2025, 2:57 PM MDT for 18 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 16, 2025, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 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 15, 2025, 2:57 PM MDT (20:57 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 16, 2025, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 16, 2025, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lincoln 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, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 48 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2025-04-15Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2025-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 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
Apr 15, 2:30 AM MDTFire Weather WatchABQBernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, McKinley and 11 more12 hr
Apr 15, 2:33 AM MDTHigh Wind WatchABQBernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe and 11 more36 hr
Apr 15, 2:57 PM MDTRed Flag WarningABQBernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca and 18 more54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.