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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 11, 2015Rio Arriba County, San Juan County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2015, 12:24 PM MDT for Rio Arriba County, San Juan County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 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 11, 2015, 12:24 PM MDT (18:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2015, 1:30 PM MDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 304 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 11, 12:01 PM MDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 12:01 PM MDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 5:13 AM MDT, 7 hours 11 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
513 AM MDT THU JUN 11 2015

NMZ501>540-121200-
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 CRISTOS ABOVE 9500 FEET/RED RIVER-
SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTOS ABOVE 9500 FEET-
EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-
LOWER CHAMA RIVER VALLEY-SANTA FE METRO AREA-
MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/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-
513 AM MDT THU JUN 11 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL
NEW MEXICO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND STRONG
OUTFLOW WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE NORTHWEST
QUARTER AND NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER BETWEEN RATON AND CLAYTON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SLOWER STORM MOTION AND A MOISTURE RICH ATMOSPHERE LATE FRIDAY AND
LATE SATURDAY WILL SUPPORT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL PRODUCING
THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND ACROSS
THE EAST CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

11

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 11:24 AM MDT, 1 hour before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1124 AM MDT THU JUN 11 2015

NMZ501-111800-
NORTHWEST PLATEAU-
1124 AM MDT THU JUN 11 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL SAN JUAN COUNTY UNTIL
NOON MDT...

AT 1122 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6
MILES NORTHWEST OF FARMINGTON TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SANOSTEE...AND
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FARMINGTON...KIRTLAND...FRUITLAND...NAPI HEADQUARTERS...UPPER
FRUITLAND...BURNHAM...OJO AMARILLO AND NENAHNEZAD.

OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
DUNES RECREATION AREA...HEAD CANYON RECREATION AREA...JACKSON LAKE
WILDLIFE AREA...AND AZTEC RUINS NATIONAL MONUMENT.

&&

LAT...LON 3684 10799 3633 10851 3633 10891 3685 10831
TIME...MOT...LOC 1722Z 258DEG 17KT 3684 10824 3635 10882

GUYER

Local storm report, Jun 11, 12:13 PM MDT, 11 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
Jun 11, 11:24 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	36 min
Jun 11, 11:49 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	41 min
Jun 11, 11:57 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Juan	24 min
Jun 11, 12:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	89 min
Jun 11, 1:04 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, San Juan	116 min
Jun 11, 1:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	8 min
Jun 11, 4:04 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	44 hr
Jun 11, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2015 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.