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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 21, 2010Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 21, 2010, 5:08 AM MDT for Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 39 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
Oct 21, 2010, 5:08 AM MDT (11:08 UTC)
Expired
Oct 21, 2010, 5:47 AM MDT
In force
39 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 11:08 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 248 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2010-10-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 48 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2010-10-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
48 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 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 Oct 21, 3:00 AM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 21, 3:00 AM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 20, 6:26 AM MDT, 22 hours 42 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 20, 11:11 PM MDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Oct 20, 11:48 PM MDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 20, 6:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan52 min
Oct 20, 6:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCibola48 min
Oct 20, 6:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ23 min
Oct 20, 6:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCibola27 min
Oct 20, 6:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia29 min
Oct 20, 6:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia32 min
Oct 20, 7:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSocorro32 min
Oct 20, 7:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCibola56 min
Oct 20, 7:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMcKinley65 min
Oct 20, 7:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCibola, McKinley44 min
Oct 20, 7:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ48 min
Oct 20, 7:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia26 min
Oct 20, 7:53 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQBernalillo, Valencia82 min
Oct 20, 8:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia29 min
Oct 20, 8:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia36 min
Oct 20, 8:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQBernalillo31 min
Oct 20, 8:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia28 min
Oct 20, 8:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Socorro, Torrance, Valencia41 min
Oct 20, 8:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSocorro, Valencia110 min
Oct 20, 9:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQBernalillo27 min
Oct 20, 9:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo27 min
Oct 20, 9:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQBernalillo56 min
Oct 20, 10:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSocorro24 min
Oct 20, 11:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSocorro34 min
Oct 20, 11:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia27 min
Oct 21, 1:11 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca, Guadalupe49 min
Oct 21, 5:03 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQChaves27 min
Oct 21, 6:16 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQChaves89 min
Oct 21, 6:31 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ29 min
Oct 21, 7:58 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCurry, Roosevelt92 min
Oct 21, 9:39 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCurry, Roosevelt111 min
Oct 21, 2:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan24 min
Oct 21, 2:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan28 min
Oct 21, 3:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQRio Arriba30 min
Oct 21, 3:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMcKinley26 min
Oct 21, 3:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLincoln36 min
Oct 21, 3:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQBernalillo43 min
Oct 21, 3:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMcKinley33 min
Oct 21, 4:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ44 min
Oct 21, 4:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval29 min
Oct 21, 4:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMcKinley30 min
Oct 21, 4:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQChaves36 min
Oct 21, 5:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQBernalillo30 min
Oct 21, 5:19 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves, Lincoln41 min
Oct 21, 5:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSandoval45 min
Oct 21, 5:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQMcKinley, San Juan117 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.