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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 5, 2014Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2014, 1:21 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 27 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: Aug 5, 2014, 1:21 PM MDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2014, 1:48 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 383 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2090 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Aug 4, 5:38 PM MDT, 19 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 5:38 PM MDT, 19 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 6:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel, Torrance	90 min
Aug 4, 6:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance, Valencia	92 min
Aug 4, 7:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	83 min
Aug 4, 7:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	82 min
Aug 4, 9:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro, Valencia	2 hr
Aug 5, 1:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	90 min
Aug 5, 2:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	30 min
Aug 5, 2:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	95 min
Aug 5, 3:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	34 min
Aug 5, 3:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Union	88 min
Aug 5, 3:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	32 min
Aug 5, 4:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Taos	88 min
Aug 5, 4:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	45 min
Aug 5, 4:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	52 min
Aug 5, 5:06 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Union	114 min
Aug 5, 5:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	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.