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Wind Advisory 25, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 26, 202516 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Apr 26, 2025, 12:07 PM MDT for 16 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 27, 2025, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2025, 12:07 PM MDT (18:07 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 27, 2025, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Apr 27, 2025, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 50 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 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 Apr 26, 11:18 AM MDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 11:18 AM MDT, 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 26, 6:36 AM MDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 26, 8:20 AM MDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 6:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	26 min
Apr 25, 6:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	38 min
Apr 25, 6:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	4 hr
Apr 25, 6:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	51 min
Apr 25, 6:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	18 min
Apr 25, 6:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Roosevelt	52 min
Apr 25, 7:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	36 min
Apr 25, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Roosevelt	44 min
Apr 25, 7:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	43 min
Apr 25, 11:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	26 min
Apr 25, 11:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	49 min
Apr 26, 12:05 AM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	De Baca	25 min
Apr 26, 12:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	44 min
Apr 26, 12:59 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca	5 hr
Apr 26, 1:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	45 min
Apr 26, 2:45 AM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance, Union	7 hr
Apr 26, 2:45 AM MDT	High Wind Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Lincoln, Mora and 9 more	41 hr
Apr 26, 3:01 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	4 hr
Apr 26, 9:25 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay	12 hr
Apr 26, 2:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	26 min
Apr 26, 2:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	23 min
Apr 26, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	50 min
Apr 26, 2:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	41 min
Apr 26, 2:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	51 min
Apr 26, 2:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	41 min
Apr 26, 3:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	39 min
Apr 26, 3:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	37 min
Apr 26, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	65 min
Apr 26, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	27 min
Apr 26, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	65 min
Apr 26, 4:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	51 min
Apr 26, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	64 min
Apr 26, 4:47 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca	4 hr
Apr 26, 5:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	66 min
Apr 26, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	De Baca, Roosevelt	65 min
Apr 26, 5:42 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ABQ	De Baca	33 min
Apr 26, 5:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ABQ	Chaves	30 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.