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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 3, 2012Bernalillo County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2012, 4:13 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 32 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 3, 2012, 4:13 PM MDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2012, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

County Bernalillo County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 14 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -399 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 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.

958 
WWUS85 KABQ 032213
SPSABQ

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
413 PM MDT FRI AUG 3 2012

NMZ519-032245-
MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-
413 PM MDT FRI AUG 3 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL BERNALILLO AND SOUTHERN
SANDOVAL COUNTIES THROUGH 445 PM MDT...

AT 358 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RIO GRANDE NATURE CENTER...
OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF ALBUQUERQUE...MOVING EAST AT 17 MPH.

WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 45 TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH
FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...ALBUQUERQUE...PARADISE
HILLS...CABEZON...LOS RANCHOS DE ALBUQUERQUE...RIO RANCHO INTEL
AREA...NORTH VALLEY...VISTA HILLS...CORRALES AND ALAMEDA.

MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT BRIEF...BUT SUDDEN CHANGES IN VISIBILITY AND
PONDING OF WATER ON THE HIGHWAYS AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH THE
AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 3529 10663 3510 10648 3497 10677 3512 10689
TIME...MOT...LOC 2213Z 249DEG 21KT 3511 10667

$$

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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, 8:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	34 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, 4:16 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

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.