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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 7, 202510 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this winter storm warning at Mar 7, 2025, 2:57 AM MST for 10 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 7, 2025, 2:00 PM MST. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 2025, 2:57 AM MST (09:57 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 7, 2025, 2:00 PM MST
Expired: Mar 8, 2025, 2:02 PM MST
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:01 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 442 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: 1767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Mar 6, 10:57 PM MST, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 10:57 PM MST, 4 hours before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 6, 9:06 PM MST, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 6, 10:02 PM MST, 4 hours 55 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
Mar 6, 5:05 PM MST	Dust Storm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	115 min
Mar 6, 5:51 PM MST	Dust Storm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	84 min
Mar 6, 7:03 PM MST	Dust Storm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	28 min
Mar 7, 2:57 AM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Guadalupe, McKinley, Quay and 9 more	38 hr
Mar 7, 3:08 PM MST	Dust Storm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr

Nearby

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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.