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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2014, 7:51 PM MDT for Colfax County, Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 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 25, 2014, 7:51 PM MDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2014, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 214 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 419 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
- 3245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 25, 5:27 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 5:27 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 5:21 AM MDT, 14 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 521 AM MDT WED JUN 25 2014 NMZ501>540-261200- 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- 521 AM MDT WED JUN 25 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FEW STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PLAINS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS...ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AMOUNTS BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY HOT...DRY AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS WILL CREATE A CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER SCENARIO ON THURSDAY ACROSS THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/HIGHLANDS. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE ALSO FORECAST ON FRIDAY...BUT WITH MORE WIND AND THE POTENTIAL FOR RED FLAG CONDITIONS. WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS... WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR THE NORTHEAST PLAINS DUE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. 11
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 2:47 PM MDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 25, 7:00 PM MDT, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 700 PM MDT WED JUN 25 2014 NMZ515-527-528-260130- EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA- 700 PM MDT WED JUN 25 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY THROUGH 730 PM MDT... AT 657 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF CIMARRON...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3666 10457 3641 10470 3654 10504 3673 10493 TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 288DEG 11KT 3662 10486
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 7:31 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 731 PM MDT WED JUN 25 2014 NMZ528-260200- FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- 731 PM MDT WED JUN 25 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY THROUGH 800 PM MDT... AT 728 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES EAST OF CIMARRON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. AREAS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...SPRINGER...SPRINGER LAKE AND MIAMI. THIS WILL IMPACT INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 413 AND 421... IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. && LAT...LON 3640 10452 3624 10487 3653 10490 3661 10470 TIME...MOT...LOC 0132Z 335DEG 20KT 3648 10475
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 7:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 7:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 29 min |
| Jun 25, 8:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 29 min |
| Jun 25, 8:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 2:42 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan and 2 more | 29 hr |
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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.