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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2013, 2:17 PM MDT for Chaves County, De Baca County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2013, 2:17 PM MDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2013, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4405 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 20, 12:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 12:02 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 609 AM MDT THU JUN 20 2013 NMZ501>540-211200- 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- 609 AM MDT THU JUN 20 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG WINDS...ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...AND VERY DRY CONDITIONS WILL COMBINE TO CREATE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL TO WESTERN NEW MEXICO. A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT. A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO TODAY...GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF A CLAYTON TO RUIDOSO LINE. HAIL...STRONG TO POTENTIALLY DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS...AND AREAS OF BLOWING DUST WILL BE A CONCERN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THE WEATHER PATTERN WILL REMAIN CONDUCIVE TO CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL TO WESTERN NEW MEXICO FRIDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL REMAIN CONFINED TO EASTERN NEW MEXICO WHERE THE POTENTIAL FOR A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE CELLS WILL PERSIST. WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS... WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO ARE URGED TO REPORT ANY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS...HEAVY RAINFALL...OR HAIL TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE AT 1.888.386.7637 OR VIA THE WEB AT WEATHER.GOV/ABQ. 52
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 20, 9:32 AM MDT, 4 hours 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 37 min |
| Jun 19, 6:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 33 min |
| Jun 19, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 1:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 2:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | De Baca | 27 min |
| Jun 20, 2:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 30 min |
| Jun 20, 2:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 32 min |
| Jun 20, 3:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 3:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 30 min |
| Jun 20, 3:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 28 min |
| Jun 20, 4:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 4:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 4:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 113 min |
| Jun 20, 4:23 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel, Union | 23 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:23 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan and 2 more | 28 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Roosevelt | 106 min |
| Jun 20, 5:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 30 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.