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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
- 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
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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 4:07 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry and 17 more | 56 hr |
| Mar 17, 6:26 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 11 more | 38 hr |
| Mar 17, 1:55 PM MDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay and 6 more | 30 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:57 PM MDT | Dust Storm Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 103 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.