Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM

Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
620 PM MDT Fri Apr 25 2025

...New AVIATION...

.KEY MESSAGES...
Updated at 545 PM MDT Fri Apr 25 2025

- Isolated severe storms will develop in far eastern New Mexico
  this afternoon and again Saturday. A few storms will produce
  hail and/or damaging wind gusts. There is a low chance of
  tornadoes and flash flooding.

- Critical fire weather conditions will increase the risk of fire
  spread along and southwest of the middle and lower Rio Grande
  Valley Saturday, with stronger southwest winds on Sunday
  creating a more widespread risk of fire spread.

- Strong southwest winds may down tree limbs and cause damage to
  utility poles in central and eastern New Mexico Sunday
  afternoon. Blowing dust and hazardous crosswinds may impact
  travel.

- Chances for showers and storms will increase going into the
  middle of next week across eastern and portions of northern NM.

&&

.SYNOPSIS...
Issued at 120 PM MDT Fri Apr 25 2025

Isolated severe storms are forecast across far eastern NM this
afternoon and evening, with chances continuing into Saturday.
Winds will increase this weekend, especially on Sunday when strong
to potentially damaging wind gusts and areas of blowing dust are
forecast. Chances for showers and storms will trend up going into
the middle of next week across much of northern and eastern NM,
with daytime temperatures generally near to below average.

&&

.SHORT TERM...
(This evening through Saturday night)
Issued at 120 PM MDT Fri Apr 25 2025

Northern and central NM remains split across three different surface
airmasses with southwesterly flow aloft across the entire state.
While dry southerly winds are combining with very low humidity near
or below ten percent across the western half, higher moisture
resides across eastern NM. A cold frontal boundary backed through
northeastern NM wrapping around the southern tip of the Sangre de
Cristo's into Santa Fe bringing cooler temperatures and higher
moisture. Clayton notably has barely reached 50F today so far.
Southerly return flow bringing higher Td's from the Gulf continues
to push into southeastern and east-central NM meeting the
aforementioned cold front across Roosevelt County. This stalled
frontal boundary is where convective initiation has begun this hour.
SBCAPE of 1500-2500 J/kg will allow for robust convective updrafts,
and a veering vertical wind profile will allow for organized
supercells to develop. Drier mid-level air aloft mixing to the
surface, as has been observed the past few days in this region, will
again shunt the threat for severe weather further west into De Baca
and Chaves County this afternoon. However, this won't have much luck
penetrating past the surface frontal boundary allowing for
convection to stay focused and threaten areas of Curry and Roosevelt
Counties through the rest of this afternoon where a Tornado Watch
is in effect. Large hail and severe wind gusts are the main threats
with any of these cells, however SRH surpassing 100 m2/s2 will allow
for a tornado threat.

Single-cell thunderstorms will favor an easterly trek into TX by the
evening with outflow pushing back west into the eastern plains of
NM. The original frontal boundary becomes meshed and redefined north-
to-south further west, surging through the gaps of the central
mountain chain into Albuquerque. Showers and a few thunderstorms
will favor areas along this redefined frontal boundary in east-
central NM, with shower activity and patchy fog favored from Las
Vegas to Clines Corners past midnight. Gusty east canyon winds at
Albuquerque look to reach 30-35 mph with a brief uptick in moisture
spilling into the Rio Grande Valley all the way to the Continental
Divide between Grants and Chama. Drier southerly to southwesterly
winds quickly mix this moisture out Saturday afternoon, with chances
for thunderstorm activity returning to the eastern plains of NM.
Forecast uncertainty regarding atmospheric instability remains
across the eastern plains where there is a marginal risk for strong
to severe thunderstorms.

&&

.LONG TERM...
(Sunday through Thursday)
Issued at 120 PM MDT Fri Apr 25 2025

Strong to potentially damaging southwest winds will develop
Sunday as the jet stream pivots over the area in advance of an
approaching upper level low/trough. Winds are forecast to reach up
to 115kts at 300mb across northwest NM and a lee side trough is
forecast to deepen to near 989mb across northeast CO. Deep
atmospheric mixing will bring strong to damaging winds gusts to
the surface Sunday afternoon, with the highest gusts forecast from
south central NM through north central NM where a High Wind Watch
is in place. Areas of blowing dust will likely develop Sunday
afternoon, impacting middle RGV and Roswell areas. The upper level
trough will move east through the central/southern Rockies
Monday, turning our winds to the west. However, winds will trend
down Monday as the jet stream pulls away and another upper level
low approaches from over SoCal. Monday will be dry, but PWATs are
forecast to rise through mid week as the upper low over Socal
moves east over NM on Wednesday. The result will be increasing
chances for showers and storms Tue/Wed, especially across north
central and northeast NM on Wednesday where the upper low may
interact with a weak backdoor cold front. Another, weaker upper
low may impact the region toward the end of next week and keep
chances for convection going, mainly across northern and eastern
NM. Daytime temperatures will trend down and be near to below
average from mid to late next week thanks to the increase in
atmospheric moisture.

&&

.AVIATION...
(00Z TAFS)
Issued at 545 PM MDT Fri Apr 25 2025

Showers and thunderstorms are forecast to continue through tonight
across the far eastern plains with spottier showers over central
and western parts of the plains. Widespread low clouds are also
forecast to produce MVFR and IFR conditions east of the central
mountain chain tonight, with low clouds making their way into the
Santa Fe area as well from the southeast after midnight. Patchy
and dense fog will probably also develop along the east slopes of
the central mountain chain late tonight through early Saturday
morning. Low clouds will retreat from the west starting around mid
morning Saturday, but probably won't clear the far eastern plains
until late in the afternoon; perhaps lingering all day around KCVN
and KCAO. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop across
much of the eastern plains on Saturday afternoon. Some storms this
evening, and again on Saturday, will be capable of produce large
hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes.

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...
Issued at 120 PM MDT Fri Apr 25 2025

...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER THREAT THROUGH SUNDAY MAINLY WESTERN AND
CENTRAL NM THEN EASTERN NM MONDAY...

While cooler and higher moisture resides over eastern NM this
afternoon persisting there Saturday shunting the fire weather
threat, very dry southerly flow persists elevated to critical fire
weather conditions across the western half of NM this afternoon.
This is notably true in the middle Rio Grande Valley. The
increased moisture pushes back west through the gaps of the central
mountain chain tonight bringing gusty east canyon winds to Santa Fe
and Albuquerque tonight and a brief good recovery in humidity
Saturday morning. This low level moisture gets mixed back out quick
Saturday afternoon by dry southerly winds, expanding the threat of
critical fire weather across west-central NM as well. Strong
southwesterly winds push the low level moisture back east to TX
Sunday, with widespread critical fire weather over at least the
western two-thirds of NM. A Pacific cold front brings temperatures
down some over western NM, turning winds westerly and shifting the
focus for critical fire weather conditions to the eastern half of
NM

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Farmington......................  43  78  41  72 /   0   0   0   0
Dulce...........................  33  75  33  71 /   0   0   0   0
Cuba............................  38  74  39  72 /   0   0   0   0
Gallup..........................  30  74  30  68 /   0   0   0   0
El Morro........................  37  72  36  68 /   0   0   0   0
Grants..........................  33  77  33  73 /   0   0   0   0
Quemado.........................  35  73  36  69 /   0   0   0   0
Magdalena.......................  44  77  45  75 /   0   0   0   0
Datil...........................  39  73  39  70 /   0   0   0   0
Reserve.........................  31  76  37  72 /   0   0   0   0
Glenwood........................  35  82  40  77 /   0   0   0   0
Chama...........................  33  68  34  65 /   0   0   0   0
Los Alamos......................  46  71  46  72 /   5   5   0   0
Pecos...........................  44  70  43  73 /  30  20  10   0
Cerro/Questa....................  40  70  43  68 /  10   5   5   0
Red River.......................  34  60  38  59 /  20  10  10   0
Angel Fire......................  32  64  33  66 /  40  20  20   0
Taos............................  36  72  37  72 /  20   5   5   0
Mora............................  40  67  39  71 /  40  30  20   0
Espanola........................  43  80  44  79 /   5   5   0   0
Santa Fe........................  46  74  47  74 /  10  10   5   0
Santa Fe Airport................  45  77  44  78 /  10  10   0   0
Albuquerque Foothills...........  53  81  54  79 /   0   5   0   0
Albuquerque Heights.............  49  82  49  81 /   0   0   0   0
Albuquerque Valley..............  46  85  47  83 /   0   0   0   0
Albuquerque West Mesa...........  48  83  49  82 /   0   0   0   0
Belen...........................  45  84  43  84 /   0   0   0   0
Bernalillo......................  48  84  48  82 /   0   0   0   0
Bosque Farms....................  44  84  43  83 /   0   0   0   0
Corrales........................  47  84  49  82 /   0   0   0   0
Los Lunas.......................  46  84  45  83 /   0   0   0   0
Placitas........................  50  79  50  79 /   0   5   0   0
Rio Rancho......................  48  83  49  81 /   0   0   0   0
Socorro.........................  47  86  47  85 /   0   0   0   0
Sandia Park/Cedar Crest.........  45  75  47  74 /  10  10   0   0
Tijeras.........................  46  77  47  76 /  10  10   0   0
Edgewood........................  43  76  41  76 /  10  10   0   0
Moriarty/Estancia...............  39  77  36  78 /   5  10   0   0
Clines Corners..................  43  70  41  73 /  10  20   5   0
Mountainair.....................  42  76  45  76 /   5   5   0   0
Gran Quivira....................  41  76  44  76 /   0   0   0   0
Carrizozo.......................  49  79  51  80 /   0   0   0   0
Ruidoso.........................  46  73  49  74 /   5   0   0   0
Capulin.........................  41  63  44  74 /  50  30  30   0
Raton...........................  43  68  43  78 /  50  30  20   0
Springer........................  44  69  43  79 /  50  20  20   0
Las Vegas.......................  44  66  43  75 /  40  30  20   0
Clayton.........................  45  65  51  81 /  70  40  30  10
Roy.............................  45  65  48  79 /  50  40  30   5
Conchas.........................  51  72  51  87 /  50  50  30  10
Santa Rosa......................  50  72  49  84 /  50  40  20   0
Tucumcari.......................  51  72  54  87 /  50  50  40  10
Clovis..........................  55  73  56  87 /  70  60  30  10
Portales........................  54  73  56  89 /  70  60  30  10
Fort Sumner.....................  53  76  53  89 /  50  50  20   5
Roswell.........................  60  85  57  94 /  30  30  10   5
Picacho.........................  50  81  47  86 /  20  10   5   0
Elk.............................  45  81  48  82 /   5   5   5   0

&&

.ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
Red Flag Warning from 11 AM to 9 PM MDT Sunday for NMZ101-105-
106-109-120>125.

Red Flag Warning from 1 PM to 7 PM MDT Saturday for NMZ105-106-
109.

Red Flag Warning until 7 PM MDT this evening for NMZ106.

High Wind Watch from Sunday morning through Sunday evening for
NMZ212>215-220>229-239-240.

&&

SHORT TERM...24
LONG TERM....11
AVIATION...44

Please note: The SYNOPSIS section will be terminated by the end of April.

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
527 PM MDT Fri Apr 25 2025

NMZ227-228-260000-
Johnson and Bartlett Mesas Including Raton Pass NM-Far Northeast
Highlands NM-
527 PM MDT Fri Apr 25 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTH CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY
UNTIL 6 PM MDT...

At 527 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 12
miles northwest of Raton Crews Airport, or 11 miles west of Raton,
moving northeast at 15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
  Raton.

This includes the following highways...
	Highway 64 near Mile Marker 350.
	Interstate 25 between Mile Markers 448 and 460.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Accumulations of small hail on roads can create very slick and
hazardous driving conditions.

&&

LAT...LON 3699 10463 3699 10447 3685 10439 3675 10468
      3693 10475
TIME...MOT...LOC 2326Z 240DEG 12KT 3686 10465

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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