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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 28, 2007Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 2007, 2:11 PM MDT for Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 28, 2007, 2:11 PM MDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 2007, 3:15 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 28, 9:24 AM MDT, 4 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 28, 9:24 AM MDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 28, 5:31 AM MDT, 8 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
531 AM MDT FRI SEP 28 2007

NMZ001>021-026-291215-
NORTHWEST PLATEAU-NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS INCLUDING JEMEZ-
UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-
NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-HARDING COUNTY-FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS-
WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-
MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-
SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS/ESTANCIA VALLEY-
CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-QUAY COUNTY-
SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/UPPER GILA REGION-LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-
LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS/HONDO VALLEY-
CAPITAN/NORTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-DE BACA COUNTY-
CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF CHAVES COUNTY-
531 AM MDT FRI SEP 28 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL
NEW MEXICO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. HOWEVER...
A FEW THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40 THIS AFTERNOON OR
EVENING COULD BE STRONG...CONTAINING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL
UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. HOWEVER...
A FEW THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN COULD BE
STRONG SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...CONTAINING WIND GUSTS TO
50 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER.

WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...
WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

40

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 28, 2:01 PM MDT, 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
201 PM MDT FRI SEP 28 2007

NMZ002-008-282045-
NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS INCLUDING JEMEZ-WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-
201 PM MDT FRI SEP 28 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER SOUTHWEST SANDOVAL COUNTY...

AT 159 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND
HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARQUEZ.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE RURAL CENTRAL SANDOVAL
COUNTY...INCLUDING THE LAGUNA INDIAN RESERVATION...MESA COCINA AND
PORTIONS OF THE RIO PUERCO.

THIS STORM WAS NOT PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...
PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE ADVISED TO MONITOR THE WEATHER
SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO
TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION.

DPORTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 28, 2:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	55 min
Sep 28, 3:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	65 min
Sep 28, 3:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	67 min
Sep 28, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	61 min
Sep 28, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	60 min
Sep 28, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	60 min
Sep 28, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	64 min
Sep 28, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	60 min
Sep 28, 5:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	46 min
Sep 28, 5:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	59 min
Sep 28, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	67 min
Sep 28, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	63 min
Sep 28, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	60 min

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.