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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 22, 2013, 12:51 PM MDT for San Juan 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 2013, 12:51 PM MDT (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2013, 1:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County San Juan County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 203 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 11:40 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 292 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
- 143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Sep 22, 12:25 PM MDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 22, 12:25 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 515 AM MDT SUN SEP 22 2013 NMZ501>540-231200- 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- 515 AM MDT SUN SEP 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO TODAY. HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT...BUT STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE AS WELL. ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL CAN NOT BE RULED OUT...ACCUMULATING SMALL HAIL IS MORE LIKELY. THE FOCUS FOR STORMS WILL SHIFT EAST INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY BETWEEN TAOS...SANTA FE AND ALBUQUERQUE BETWEEN 5 AND 9 PM MDT. WINDY TO VERY WINDY CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO AND A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE CHUSKA MOUNTAINS AND WEST CENTRAL PLATEAU FROM 1 TO 7 PM MDT. SOME ACCUMULATING SNOW IS LIKELY ACROSS THE HIGHER PEAKS OF THE JEMEZ...TUSAS AND SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS TONIGHT. NO IMPACTS FROM SNOW ARE EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO DUE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS. 11
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 22, 9:03 AM MDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 3:49 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | 15 hr | |
| Sep 22, 12:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Juan | 28 min |
| Sep 22, 1:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 33 min | |
| Sep 22, 1:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 31 min |
| Sep 22, 1:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba, San Juan | 37 min |
| Sep 22, 1:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 50 min |
| Sep 22, 3:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 45 min | |
| Sep 22, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | McKinley, Sandoval | 30 min |
| Sep 22, 3:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Juan | 28 min |
| Sep 22, 3:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Sandoval | 50 min |
| Sep 22, 4:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 30 min |
| Sep 22, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval | 40 min |
| Sep 22, 4:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Los Alamos | 29 min |
| Sep 22, 4:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 32 min | |
| Sep 22, 4:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 34 min |
| Sep 22, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | McKinley, San Juan | 27 min |
| Sep 22, 5:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 37 min | |
| Sep 22, 5:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Valencia | 33 min |
| Sep 22, 5:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 27 min | |
| Sep 22, 5:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | McKinley | 24 min |
| Sep 22, 5:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 29 min |
| Sep 22, 5:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Valencia | 20 min |
| Sep 22, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Socorro, Torrance, Valencia | 46 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.