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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
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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
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.
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 12:17 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 6 more | 24 hr |
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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.