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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 31, 2009Harding County, Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2009, 5:44 PM MDT for Harding County, Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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 31, 2009, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2009, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 31, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 429 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: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1258 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -31 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 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 31, 4:25 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 4:25 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 4:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 1:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
135 PM MDT FRI JUL 31 2009

NMZ512-513-515-516-527-312000-
EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTOS
ABOVE 9500 FEET/RED RIVER-RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA-UPPER RIO GRANDE
VALLEY-WEST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-
135 PM MDT FRI JUL 31 2009

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER NORTHERN TAOS COUNTY...

AT 133 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 SOUTHWEST OF AMALIA.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE COSTILLA AND SUNSHINE
VALLEY.

MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT BRIEF...BUT SUDDEN CHANGES IN VISIBILITY AND
PONDING OF WATER...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AS THIS STORM
MOVES THROUGH THE AREA.

Special weather statement, Jul 31, 3:06 PM MDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
306 PM MDT FRI JUL 31 2009

NMZ512-513-515-516-312145-
EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTOS
ABOVE 9500 FEET/RED RIVER-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-WEST SLOPES SANGRE
DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-
306 PM MDT FRI JUL 31 2009

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER EASTERN TAOS COUNTY...

AT 304 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 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ARROYO
SECO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE EAGLE NEST...
ELIZABETHTOWN AND VALDEZ.

MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT BRIEF...BUT SUDDEN CHANGES IN VISIBILITY ON THE
ROADWAYS AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA.

Local storm report, Jul 31, 4:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 4:36 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 4:47 PM MDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 5:09 PM MDT, 35 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 6:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	58 min
Jul 30, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	64 min
Jul 30, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	65 min
Jul 30, 7:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	116 min
Jul 30, 8:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	30 min
Jul 30, 9:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	110 min
Jul 31, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	60 min
Jul 31, 3:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	26 min
Jul 31, 3:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	63 min
Jul 31, 3:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	64 min
Jul 31, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	53 min
Jul 31, 4:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	33 min
Jul 31, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	64 min
Jul 31, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	52 min
Jul 31, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay	21 min
Jul 31, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	62 min
Jul 31, 5:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	113 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2009 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.