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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2012, 6:06 AM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 24 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 19, 2012, 6:06 AM MDT (12:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2012, 6:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
County De Baca County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Aug 19, 6:02 AM MDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 6:02 AM MDT, 4 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 528 AM MDT SUN AUG 19 2012 NMZ501>540-201200- NORTHWEST PLATEAU-CHUSKA MOUNTAINS-FAR NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS- NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-WEST CENTRAL PLATEAU-WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- WEST CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS- SAN FRANCISCO RIVER VALLEY-SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-JEMEZ MOUNTAINS- WEST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 9500 FEET/RED RIVER- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 9500 FEET- EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- LOWER CHAMA RIVER VALLEY-SANTA FE METRO AREA-ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA- LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-ESTANCIA VALLEY- CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-UPPER TULAROSA VALLEY- SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA- FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-UNION COUNTY- HARDING COUNTY-EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY-GUADALUPE COUNTY- QUAY COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY-SOUTHWEST CHAVES COUNTY- 528 AM MDT SUN AUG 19 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT AN ACTIVE DAY IS IN STORE FOR NEW MEXICO TODAY AS A BACK DOOR FRONT STALLS NEAR THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE AND PROVIDES A FOCUS FOR SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANOTHER SURFACE FRONT/BOUNDARY OVER THE NORTHEAST PLAINS WILL ALSO BE A FOCUS FOR STORM DEVELOPMENT TODAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE. THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND THE THREAT FOR LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY WITHIN AND BELOW RECENTLY BURNED FOREST AREAS THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY AS UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE WEAKENS OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL DROP SOUTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO ON MONDAY. THIS FEATURE IS EXPECTED TO BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS AND PLAINS MONDAY AFTERNOON...AND TO THE NORTHEAST AND EAST-CENTRAL PLAINS MONDAY EVENING. HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE STORMS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND THE THREAT FOR LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING... ESPECIALLY WITHIN AND BELOW RECENTLY BURNED FOREST AREAS THROUGH THIS EVENING. WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS... WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. 33
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 6:06 AM MDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 6:00 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe | 4 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:19 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo | 86 min |
| Aug 18, 6:39 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:01 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Valencia | 119 min |
| Aug 18, 7:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Catron | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 8:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 25 min |
| Aug 18, 8:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 33 min | |
| Aug 18, 9:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 23 min |
| Aug 18, 10:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 117 min |
| Aug 19, 12:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 29 min |
| Aug 19, 1:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 1:09 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Los Alamos, Sandoval | 111 min |
| Aug 19, 1:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | San Miguel | 85 min |
| Aug 19, 1:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 1:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Socorro | 59 min |
| Aug 19, 1:41 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 1:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Los Alamos, Sandoval | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 59 min |
| Aug 19, 2:40 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 80 min |
| Aug 19, 2:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Torrance | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 2:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Socorro | 94 min |
| Aug 19, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 3:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Torrance | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 3:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 11 min |
| Aug 19, 3:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Socorro | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 3:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 57 min |
| Aug 19, 3:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance | 111 min |
| Aug 19, 4:04 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln | 116 min |
| Aug 19, 4:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel | 81 min |
| Aug 19, 4:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Miguel | 29 min |
| Aug 19, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 4:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Harding | 27 min |
| Aug 19, 4:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | De Baca | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 5:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Socorro | 87 min |
| Aug 19, 5:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel | 82 min |
| Aug 19, 5:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Harding | 35 min |
| Aug 19, 5:47 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 5:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 5:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.