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Wind Advisory 24, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 18, 202612 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this wind advisory at May 18, 2026, 1:29 AM MDT for 12 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at May 18, 2026, 5:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2026, 1:29 AM MDT (07:29 UTC)
In effect from: May 18, 2026, 5:00 AM MDT
Expired: May 18, 2026, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:33 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 299 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 5982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -21 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 May 17, 11:29 PM MDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 11:29 PM MDT, 2 hours before

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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.