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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2008, 6:11 PM MDT for De Baca County, Guadalupe County, Lincoln 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
- Jul 27, 2008, 6:11 PM MDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2008, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Lincoln County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 320 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
- 1657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1094 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 27, 3:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 3:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 6:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 112 min |
| Jul 27, 6:26 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Socorro | 109 min |
| Jul 27, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 66 min |
| Jul 27, 7:09 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln | 111 min |
| Jul 27, 10:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 115 min |
| Jul 27, 10:21 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln | 12 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:08 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo | 52 min |
| Jul 28, 4:35 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax | 115 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.