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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 5, 2010Colfax County, Taos County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2010, 8:25 PM MDT for Colfax County, Taos County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 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 5, 2010, 8:25 PM MDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2010, 9:15 PM MDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Colfax County, NM, Taos County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 221 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2010-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2010-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
6220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Taos40 min
Jun 5, 9:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax30 min
Jun 6, 4:32 AM MDTHeat AdvisoryABQ14 hr
Jun 6, 1:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLos Alamos35 min
Jun 6, 1:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSanta Fe25 min
Jun 6, 2:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLos Alamos27 min
Jun 6, 4:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLincoln28 min
Jun 6, 4:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTorrance33 min
Jun 6, 4:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ37 min
Jun 6, 4:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln, Socorro41 min
Jun 6, 5:16 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLincoln, Socorro119 min
Jun 6, 5:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTorrance26 min
Jun 6, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance50 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.