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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM

March 10, 20264 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Mar 10, 2026, 10:34 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Mar 11, 2026, 2:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2026, 10:34 PM MDT (04:34 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 11, 2026, 2:00 AM MDT
Expired: Mar 11, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3298 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Mar 10, 5:30 PM MDT, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 5:30 PM MDT, 5 hours 4 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
Mar 11, 1:11 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 6 more	12 hr
Mar 11, 1:24 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 6 more	31 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.