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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 12, 2014Mora County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Oct 12, 2014, 2:18 PM MDT for Mora 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 12, 2014, 2:18 PM MDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Oct 12, 2014, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

County Mora County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 202 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 334 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: 1460 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Oct 11, 5:37 PM MDT, 20 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 11, 5:37 PM MDT, 20 hours 41 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
Oct 12, 1:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	26 min
Oct 12, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	35 min
Oct 12, 2:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	25 min
Oct 12, 2:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	36 min
Oct 12, 2:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	37 min
Oct 12, 2:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	33 min
Oct 12, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	33 min
Oct 12, 3:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	27 min
Oct 12, 3:26 PM MDT	Freeze Warning	ABQ		18 hr
Oct 12, 3:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	29 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Mexico, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.