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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2009, 2:32 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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 15, 2009, 2:32 PM MDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2009, 3:16 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 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 20:34 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 383 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 15, 3:00 AM MDT, 11 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 3:00 AM MDT, 11 hours 32 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 558 AM MDT WED JUL 15 2009 NMZ001>021-026-161200- NORTHWEST PLATEAU-NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS INCLUDING JEMEZ- UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-HARDING COUNTY-FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS- WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA- SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS/ESTANCIA VALLEY- CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-QUAY COUNTY- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/UPPER GILA REGION-LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS/HONDO VALLEY- CAPITAN/NORTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-DE BACA COUNTY- CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY- GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF CHAVES COUNTY- 558 AM MDT WED JUL 15 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM THE EAST SLOPES OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS EASTWARD ACROSS THE NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL PLAINS...MAINLY ALONG AND NORTH OF I-40 TO THE COLORADO BORDER. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY MONDAY AND TUESDAY...THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON AND NIGHT ALONG AND EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN TO THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA BORDERS. WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS... WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED IN COLFAX...GUADALUPE...HARDING...MORA...QUAY AND UNION COUNTIES DUE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. MONDAY AND TUESDAY AFTERNOONS AND EVENINGS...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED CHAVES...COLFAX...CURRY...GUADALUPE...HARDING... LINCOLN...MORA...QUAY...ROOSEVELT...SAN MIGUEL...TORRANCE AND UNION COUNTIES DUE TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. 44
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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:12 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 7:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Roosevelt | 55 min |
| Jul 15, 2:51 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 114 min |
| Jul 15, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 3:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance | 112 min |
| Jul 15, 4:07 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Roosevelt | 113 min |
| Jul 15, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 44 min |
| Jul 15, 4:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 116 min |
| Jul 15, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Union | 60 min |
| Jul 15, 5:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 111 min |
| Jul 15, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 61 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.