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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2009, 3:37 PM MDT for Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 53 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 25, 2009, 3:37 PM MDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2009, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 377 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
- 156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 25, 3:08 PM MDT, 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 3:08 PM MDT, 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 6:09 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora | 81 min |
| Jul 25, 1:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Los Alamos, Sandoval | 2 hr |
| Jul 25, 1:47 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax | 118 min |
| Jul 25, 2:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax | 118 min |
| Jul 25, 3:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 94 min |
| Jul 25, 3:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 83 min |
| Jul 25, 4:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Union | 95 min |
| Jul 25, 5:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Mora | 90 min |
| Jul 25, 5:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 118 min |
| Jul 25, 5:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 63 min |
| Jul 25, 5:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 24 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.