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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 17, 20259 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Mar 17, 2025, 11:00 AM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 18, 2025, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 17, 2025, 11:00 AM MDT (17:00 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 18, 2025, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired
Mar 18, 2025, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 2025-03-17Temperature 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 2025-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2630 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 17, 6:04 AM MDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 6:04 AM MDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 4:07 AM MDTHigh Wind WarningABQBernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry and 17 more56 hr
Mar 17, 6:26 AM MDTRed Flag WarningABQBernalillo, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 11 more38 hr
Mar 17, 1:55 PM MDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryABQChaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay and 6 more30 hr
Mar 17, 4:57 PM MDTDust Storm AdvisoryABQChaves103 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.