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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2014, 4:30 PM MDT for Harding County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 14, 2014, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2014, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 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 22:32 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 295 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
- 1719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 Jul 14, 3:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 3:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 14, 6:08 AM MDT, 10 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 608 AM MDT MON JUL 14 2014 NMZ501>540-151200- 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- 608 AM MDT MON JUL 14 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY INTO TONIGHT. RAINFALL COULD BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES. THIS MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY OVER AND NEAR RECENT AND OLDER BURN SCARS. ISOLATED LOCATIONS MAY RECEIVE UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL OR VERY LOCALLY EVEN MORE. A FEW STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY. RAINFALL ONCE AGAIN COULD BECOME HEAVY. THIS MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY OVER AND NEAR RECENT AND OLDER BURN SCARS. ISOLATED LOCATIONS MAY RECEIVE UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL. A FEW STORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND ANY FLOODING THROUGH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/ABQ OR BY CALLING 1.888.386.7637. 43
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 14, 4:26 PM MDT, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 6:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 6:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | San Miguel | 113 min |
| Jul 13, 6:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Socorro | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 7:19 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan | 116 min |
| Jul 14, 1:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 22 min |
| Jul 14, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, Union | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 5:35 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Sandoval | 115 min |
| Jul 14, 5:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Quay | 23 min |
| Jul 14, 5:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 22 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.