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Red Flag Warning 50, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 29, 20264 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this red flag warning at Jun 29, 2026, 11:32 PM MST for 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Jun 30, 2026, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for 6 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 29, 2026, 11:32 PM MST (06:32 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 30, 2026, 12:00 PM MST
Expired: Jun 30, 2026, 6:00 PM MST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Cibola County, NM, McKinley County, NM, San Juan County, NM, Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:35 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 389 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4834 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 29, 10:25 PM MST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 10:25 PM MST, 1 hour 7 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 30, 11:49 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		26 min
Jun 30, 12:33 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	27 min
Jun 30, 1:00 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	45 min
Jun 30, 1:02 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	28 min
Jun 30, 1:30 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	30 min
Jun 30, 1:44 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	31 min
Jun 30, 3:20 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	25 min
Jun 30, 3:38 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	37 min
Jun 30, 3:46 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry, Quay	29 min
Jun 30, 4:11 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		34 min
Jun 30, 4:15 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	30 min
Jun 30, 4:46 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	29 min

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.