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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this high wind watch at Mar 25, 2026, 11:38 PM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 27, 2026, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2026, 11:38 PM MDT (05:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 27, 2026, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2026, 12:02 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 332 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
- 4684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Mar 25, 11:27 PM MDT, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 11:27 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 12:02 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Cibola, Curry, Lincoln, Quay, Roosevelt and 5 more | 32 hr |
| Mar 26, 12:02 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Colfax, Harding, Lincoln, Quay, Socorro and 3 more | 27 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.