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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 10, 2013Harding County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 10, 2013, 4:40 PM MDT for Harding County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 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
Oct 10, 2013, 4:40 PM MDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Oct 10, 2013, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Harding County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2013-10-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2013-10-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 10, 3:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Harding, Union54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.