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Winter Storm Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 5, 20256 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this winter storm warning at May 5, 2025, 3:28 AM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 43 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: May 5, 2025, 3:28 AM MDT (09:28 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2025, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 43 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 337 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.4

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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 May 5, 12:05 AM MDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 12:05 AM MDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 4, 9:42 PM MDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 4, 10:43 PM MDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 4, 11:32 PM MDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 5, 12:29 AM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 5, 1:11 AM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 5, 2:14 AM MDT, 1 hour 14 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
May 4, 6:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	29 min
May 4, 6:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe	36 min
May 4, 7:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	41 min
May 4, 8:13 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	3 hr
May 4, 8:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	46 min
May 4, 9:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	41 min
May 4, 9:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Torrance	55 min
May 4, 9:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lea	33 min
May 4, 10:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	32 min
May 4, 10:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	41 min
May 4, 11:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	32 min
May 4, 11:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	28 min
May 5, 12:23 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval, Santa Fe	2 hr
May 5, 12:29 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	31 min
May 5, 12:49 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	41 min
May 5, 1:11 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	34 min
May 5, 2:14 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	31 min
May 5, 2:26 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	49 min
May 5, 3:28 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 8 more	39 hr
May 5, 10:31 AM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax	45 hr
May 5, 11:06 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	24 min
May 5, 11:08 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		37 min
May 5, 11:21 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	13 min
May 5, 11:42 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	33 min
May 5, 12:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	40 min
May 5, 1:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	48 min
May 5, 1:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	56 min
May 5, 2:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	35 min
May 5, 2:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt	35 min
May 5, 3:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		30 min
May 5, 3:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	35 min
May 5, 3:54 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	3 hr
May 5, 4:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe	86 min
May 5, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	32 min
May 5, 4:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	30 min
May 5, 5:16 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax	39 hr

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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.