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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 15, 2015Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2015, 6:52 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 38 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 15, 2015, 6:52 PM MDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2015, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Chaves County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 264 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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 15, 5:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 5:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 5:51 AM MDT, 13 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:17 PM MDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:21 PM MDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:41 PM MDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 6:51 PM MDT, 1 minute 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 15, 6:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	28 min
Jun 15, 6:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	24 min
Jun 15, 6:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	2 hr
Jun 15, 6:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	34 min
Jun 15, 6:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	24 min
Jun 15, 7:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	30 min
Jun 15, 7:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	112 min
Jun 15, 8:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	2 hr
Jun 15, 9:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	94 min
Jun 15, 9:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	119 min
Jun 15, 10:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	82 min
Jun 15, 10:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	2 hr
Jun 15, 10:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	2 hr
Jun 15, 10:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	51 min
Jun 15, 11:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	2 hr
Jun 16, 12:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	31 min
Jun 16, 1:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe	3 hr
Jun 16, 1:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	32 min
Jun 16, 3:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	2 hr
Jun 16, 3:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	115 min
Jun 16, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	36 min
Jun 16, 4:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Taos	29 min
Jun 16, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	62 min
Jun 16, 4:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	28 min
Jun 16, 4:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		23 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.