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Red Flag Warning 20, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Apr 15, 2025, 2:57 PM MDT for 24 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 17, 2025, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 11 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 17, 2025, 10:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2025, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
All 24 counties
Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Roosevelt 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), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2:30 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, McKinley and 11 more | 12 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:33 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe and 11 more | 36 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:57 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Lincoln and 12 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.