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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 18, 2009Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2009, 12:26 PM MDT for Chaves 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: Aug 18, 2009, 12:26 PM MDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2009, 1:30 PM MDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Chaves County, NM, Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4155 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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 Aug 18, 9:20 AM MDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 9:20 AM MDT, 3 hours 6 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
Aug 17, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	29 min
Aug 17, 6:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	50 min
Aug 17, 7:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	115 min
Aug 17, 7:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	39 min
Aug 17, 8:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	55 min
Aug 17, 8:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Union	47 min
Aug 17, 10:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	36 min
Aug 18, 4:00 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	30 min
Aug 18, 1:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	85 min
Aug 18, 1:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	67 min
Aug 18, 1:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	62 min
Aug 18, 1:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	35 min
Aug 18, 1:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe	65 min
Aug 18, 1:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance	62 min
Aug 18, 2:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	61 min
Aug 18, 2:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	63 min
Aug 18, 2:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	62 min
Aug 18, 2:43 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance	2 hr
Aug 18, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	59 min
Aug 18, 2:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	88 min
Aug 18, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln, Torrance	35 min
Aug 18, 3:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		29 min
Aug 18, 3:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	54 min
Aug 18, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	61 min
Aug 18, 3:23 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	52 min
Aug 18, 3:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	66 min
Aug 18, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	60 min
Aug 18, 3:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		44 min
Aug 18, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	60 min
Aug 18, 4:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	52 min
Aug 18, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Harding, San Miguel	61 min
Aug 18, 4:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	55 min
Aug 18, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	64 min
Aug 18, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	61 min
Aug 18, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay	62 min
Aug 18, 4:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	56 min
Aug 18, 4:57 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	32 min
Aug 18, 5:00 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding	18 min
Aug 18, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	60 min
Aug 18, 5:36 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	24 min
Aug 18, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	61 min

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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.