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Red Flag Warning 22, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Apr 24, 2025, 2:52 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 25, 2025, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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 24, 2025, 2:52 PM MDT (20:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 25, 2025, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2025, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 3564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 24, 12:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 12:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 5:44 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 2 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:52 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Lincoln and 13 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 28 min |
| Apr 24, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 4:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 28 min |
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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.