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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Albuquerque, NM

January 29, 20256 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Jan 29, 2025, 1:23 PM MST for 6 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Jan 30, 2025, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 29, 2025, 1:23 PM MST (20:23 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 30, 2025, 11:00 AM MST
Expired: Jan 30, 2025, 6:00 PM MST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Chaves County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 333 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: 1823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 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 Jan 29, 1:19 PM MST, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 1:19 PM MST, 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 29, 9:00 AM MST, 4 hours 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 29, 9:03 AM MST, 4 hours 20 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
903 AM MST Wed Jan 29 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0808 AM     Snow             5 NNE Prewitt           35.44N 108.02W
01/29/2025  M2.8 Inch        McKinley           NM   Cocorahs

            Cocorahs station NM-MK-24 Prewitt 5.5 NNE.

0800 AM     Snow             8 NNW Omega             34.43N 108.41W
01/29/2025  M1.7 Inch        Catron             NM   Cocorahs

            Cocorahs station NM-CT-9 Quemado 8.0 NE.

1146 PM     Snow             4 NW Red Hill           34.26N 108.91W
01/28/2025  M1.0 Inch        Catron             NM   Cocorahs

            Cocorahs station NM-CT-26 Red Hill 3.2 NW.

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Local storm report, Jan 29, 9:05 AM MST, 4 hours 18 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
905 AM MST Wed Jan 29 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0830 AM     Snow             2 NE Grants             35.17N 107.82W
01/29/2025  M3.6 Inch        Cibola             NM   Cocorahs

            Cocorahs station NM-CB-27 Grants 1.6 NE.

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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.