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Wind Advisory 20, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 22, 20269 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at Apr 22, 2026, 11:26 AM MDT for 9 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Apr 23, 2026, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 22, 2026, 11:26 AM MDT (17:26 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 23, 2026, 9:00 AM MDT
Expired
Apr 23, 2026, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 403 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 2026-04-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2026-04-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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 Apr 22, 11:14 AM MDT, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 11:14 AM MDT, 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 22, 11:42 AM MDTRed Flag WarningABQBernalillo, Catron, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe and 14 more32 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.