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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2009, 2:47 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 13, 2009, 2:47 PM MDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2009, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Colfax County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 862 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -357 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 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 Jun 13, 12:04 PM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 12:04 PM MDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:21 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 121 PM MDT SAT JUN 13 2009 NMZ001-132000- NORTHWEST PLATEAU- 121 PM MDT SAT JUN 13 2009 ...LINE OF STRONG STORMS MOVING OVER CENTRAL SAN JUAN COUNTY... AT 118 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM KIRTLAND TO NEWCOMB. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE FARMINGTON...BURNHAM AND FRUITLAND. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS...HOWEVER PERSONS TRAVELLING THROUGH THE REGION CAN EXPECT STRONG CROSS WINDS. DPORTER
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:37 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
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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.