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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 30, 2012

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Jul 30, 2012, 10:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 30 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 30, 2012, 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2012, 10:30 PM MDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 276 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: 839 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 10:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	118 min
Jul 30, 11:18 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	87 min
Jul 31, 3:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	114 min
Jul 31, 3:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	2 hr
Jul 31, 4:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	37 min
Jul 31, 4:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		28 min
Jul 31, 5:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	112 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Mexico, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.