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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2009, 6:27 PM MDT for Harding County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 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, 6:27 PM MDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2009, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Harding County, NM, Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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
- 1810 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 4:25 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 1:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 52 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, 3 hours 21 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 54 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 31, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 63 min |
| Jul 31, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, Union | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 53 min |
| Jul 31, 7:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr | |
| Jul 31, 7:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | San Miguel | 117 min |
| Jul 31, 8:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 8:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | San Miguel | 117 min |
| Jul 31, 8:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 52 min |
| Jul 31, 11:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 29 min |
| Aug 1, 12:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2009Every 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.