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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2009, 12:44 PM MDT for Colfax County, Taos County, New Mexico. It was in force for 23 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 29, 2009, 12:44 PM MDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2009, 1:07 PM MDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Colfax County, NM, Taos County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 221 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 345 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
- 279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1394 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 29, 3:34 AM MDT, 9 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:34 AM MDT, 9 hours 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT WED JUL 29 2009 NMZ501>540-301200- ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS- CHUSKA MOUNTAINS-CURRY COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY- EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY-ESTANCIA VALLEY-FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- FAR NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-GUADALUPE COUNTY-HARDING COUNTY- JEMEZ MOUNTAINS-LOWER CHAMA RIVER VALLEY-LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTOS ABOVE 9500 FEET/RED RIVER- NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-NORTHWEST PLATEAU-QUAY COUNTY- RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-SAN FRANCISCO RIVER VALLEY- SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-SANTA FE METRO AREA- SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTOS ABOVE 9500 FEET-SOUTHWEST CHAVES COUNTY- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS-UNION COUNTY-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- UPPER TULAROSA VALLEY-WEST CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- WEST CENTRAL PLATEAU-WEST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- 600 AM MDT WED JUL 29 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM THE RATON AREA TO NEAR PORTALES...WHERE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WHICH MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS ON THURSDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO LEAD TO LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. 34
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 29, 9:28 AM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Taos | 30 min |
| Jul 28, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 51 min |
| Jul 28, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 64 min |
| Jul 28, 7:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca | 63 min |
| Jul 28, 8:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 66 min |
| Jul 28, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 61 min |
| Jul 28, 9:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 92 min |
| Jul 28, 9:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 105 min |
| Jul 29, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 53 min |
| Jul 29, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 62 min |
| Jul 29, 3:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Union | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 35 min |
| Jul 29, 3:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Cibola, Torrance, Valencia | 43 min |
| Jul 29, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 44 min |
| Jul 29, 4:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 111 min |
| Jul 29, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 18 min |
| Jul 29, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 39 min |
| Jul 29, 5:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt and 2 more | 111 min |
| Jul 29, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 45 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.