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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Feb 15, 2026, 12:14 PM MST for 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Feb 16, 2026, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 7 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
- Feb 15, 2026, 12:14 PM MST (19:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2026, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2026, 6:00 PM MST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 444 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
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Feb 15, 10:27 AM MST, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 10:27 AM MST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 10:41 PM MST | High Wind Watch | ABQ | Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 10 more | 37 hr |
| Feb 15, 1:55 AM MST | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 10 hr |
| Feb 15, 1:55 AM MST | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Harding, Mora, Quay and 3 more | 24 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.