Alert archive / New Mexico / Wind Advisories in 2026

Wind Advisory 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 13, 202613 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Apr 13, 2026, 11:56 AM MDT for 13 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 14, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 2026, 11:56 AM MDT (17:56 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 14, 2026, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 14, 2026, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Chaves County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 410 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2026-04-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 665 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2026-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 13, 12:17 AM MDTFire Weather WatchABQColfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 6 more24 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in New Mexico, 2026Every wind advisory in 2026

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.