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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 7, 2010Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2010, 4:21 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 2010, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2010, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 208 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 379 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -282 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 7, 3:30 PM MDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:30 PM MDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 6:00 AM MDT, 10 hours 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 3:40 PM MDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:21 PM MDT, 0 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
Jul 6, 6:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay	49 min
Jul 6, 6:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	46 min
Jul 6, 6:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	116 min
Jul 6, 7:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	114 min
Jul 6, 7:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	42 min
Jul 6, 7:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	26 min
Jul 6, 7:59 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	2 hr
Jul 6, 8:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	116 min
Jul 6, 9:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	2 hr
Jul 7, 2:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	92 min
Jul 7, 2:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe	83 min
Jul 7, 2:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	83 min
Jul 7, 2:52 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	ABQ		30 hr
Jul 7, 3:30 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Torrance	2 hr
Jul 7, 3:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	35 min
Jul 7, 4:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Lincoln, San Miguel, Socorro, Torrance	112 min
Jul 7, 4:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	2 hr
Jul 7, 4:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Mora, San Miguel	2 hr
Jul 7, 4:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	33 min
Jul 7, 5:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Union	88 min
Jul 7, 5:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	2 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Mexico, 2010 Every special weather statement 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.