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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 5, 202612 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Mar 5, 2026, 10:19 AM MST for 12 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 6, 2026, 2:00 AM MST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 5, 2026, 10:19 AM MST (17:19 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 6, 2026, 2:00 AM MST
Expired
Mar 6, 2026, 4:00 PM MST
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 379 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2026-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2026-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 2:28 PM MSTRed Flag WarningABQColfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 6 more28 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.