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Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 5, 202612 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Mar 5, 2026, 2:28 PM MST for 12 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 6, 2026, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 8 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 5, 2026, 2:28 PM MST (21:28 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 6, 2026, 10:00 AM MST
Expired
Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM MST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 425 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2026-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 834 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2026-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 199 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
834 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-238 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
973 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 10:19 AM MSTWind AdvisoryABQBernalillo, Chaves, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln, Quay and 6 more30 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.