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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 2, 2012Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2012, 8:26 PM MDT for Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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: Aug 2, 2012, 8:26 PM MDT (02:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2012, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

County Sandoval County, NM

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 2, 6:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 6:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 6:00 AM MDT, 14 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:33 PM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 4:58 PM MDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 5:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
510 PM MDT THU AUG 2 2012

NMZ527-530-030015-
RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA-UNION COUNTY-
510 PM MDT THU AUG 2 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN UNION AND
NORTHEASTERN COLFAX COUNTIES THROUGH 615 PM MDT...

AT 510 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR FOLSOM...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF DES
MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...FOLSOM.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

KJ

LAT...LON 3690 10361 3676 10403 3692 10413 3701 10393
      3701 10367
TIME...MOT...LOC 2310Z 243DEG 19KT 3688 10397

KJ

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 8:26 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
Aug 2, 7:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	117 min
Aug 2, 9:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	7 min
Aug 2, 9:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	108 min
Aug 3, 10:58 AM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	ABQ		8 hr
Aug 3, 12:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval	114 min
Aug 3, 12:54 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval	2 hr
Aug 3, 1:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	2 hr
Aug 3, 1:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	2 hr
Aug 3, 1:25 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	2 hr
Aug 3, 1:37 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	75 min
Aug 3, 2:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval	113 min
Aug 3, 2:11 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Socorro	2 hr
Aug 3, 4:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	32 min
Aug 3, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe	25 min
Aug 3, 4:31 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	89 min
Aug 3, 5:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	46 min
Aug 3, 5:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	15 min
Aug 3, 5:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	33 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.