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Red Flag Warning 47, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 26, 202617 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Jun 26, 2026, 12:29 AM MDT for 17 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Jun 27, 2026, 11:00 AM MDT. 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: Jun 26, 2026, 12:29 AM MDT (06:29 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 27, 2026, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired: Jun 27, 2026, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Catron County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Mora County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:30 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 401 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: 758 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2956 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.2

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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 Jun 25, 11:34 PM MDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 11:34 PM MDT, 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 6:33 PM MDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 7:41 PM MDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 7:57 PM MDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 8:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:54 PM MDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 9:03 PM MDT, 3 hours 26 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
Jun 25, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	46 min
Jun 25, 6:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	52 min
Jun 25, 7:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	43 min
Jun 25, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	30 min
Jun 25, 7:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	28 min
Jun 25, 8:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		35 min
Jun 26, 12:29 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Los Alamos and 11 more	12 hr
Jun 26, 12:01 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan, Taos	32 hr
Jun 26, 12:10 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Los Alamos and 11 more	56 hr
Jun 26, 1:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	32 min
Jun 26, 1:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	38 min
Jun 26, 1:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	39 min
Jun 26, 1:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	51 min
Jun 26, 1:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	59 min
Jun 26, 1:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	64 min
Jun 26, 2:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	28 min
Jun 26, 2:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	47 min
Jun 26, 2:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	40 min
Jun 26, 2:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	35 min
Jun 26, 3:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	42 min
Jun 26, 3:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	29 min
Jun 26, 3:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	42 min
Jun 26, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	42 min
Jun 26, 3:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, San Juan	50 min
Jun 26, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro, Valencia	47 min
Jun 26, 4:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, San Juan	43 min
Jun 26, 4:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	41 min
Jun 26, 4:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	34 min
Jun 26, 4:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, Valencia	62 min
Jun 26, 4:20 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	100 min
Jun 26, 4:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	40 min
Jun 26, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	60 min
Jun 26, 5:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	14 min
Jun 26, 5:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	105 min
Jun 26, 5:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	25 min
Jun 26, 5:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	2 hr
Jun 26, 5:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	24 min
Jun 26, 5:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Taos	112 min

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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.