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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Feb 16, 2026, 1:49 AM MST for 9 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Feb 17, 2026, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 9 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 16, 2026, 1:49 AM MST (08:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2026, 10:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2026, 7:00 PM MST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
Counties Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:49 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 3122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 16, 1:30 AM MST, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 1:30 AM MST, 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 12:01 AM MST | Winter Storm Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 12 hr |
| Feb 16, 11:33 AM MST | High Wind Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe and 11 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 16, 11:33 AM MST | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley and 7 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 16, 11:53 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 29 hr |
| Feb 16, 11:53 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | ABQ | McKinley, San Juan | 29 hr |
| Feb 16, 12:23 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding and 10 more | 39 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.