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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 27, 2015Rio Arriba County, Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2015, 3:18 PM MDT for Rio Arriba County, Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 42 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 27, 2015, 3:18 PM MDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2015, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Rio Arriba County, NM, Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 369 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: 3210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 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 27, 11:53 AM MDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 11:53 AM MDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 6:12 AM MDT, 9 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:16 PM MDT, 2 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 26, 6:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe	26 min
Jun 26, 6:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	37 min
Jun 26, 7:07 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe	113 min
Jun 26, 7:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos	2 hr
Jun 26, 7:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe	36 min
Jun 26, 8:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	35 min
Jun 27, 2:11 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	2 hr
Jun 27, 3:04 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	56 min
Jun 27, 3:38 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	37 min
Jun 27, 6:06 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	3 hr
Jun 27, 1:02 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	118 min
Jun 27, 1:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	26 min
Jun 27, 2:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	30 min
Jun 27, 2:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	33 min
Jun 27, 2:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	2 hr
Jun 27, 2:40 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval	110 min
Jun 27, 3:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	117 min
Jun 27, 3:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	29 min
Jun 27, 3:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	33 min
Jun 27, 3:38 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	112 min
Jun 27, 4:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	23 min
Jun 27, 4:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	37 min
Jun 27, 4:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	26 min
Jun 27, 4:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	25 min
Jun 27, 4:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	32 min
Jun 27, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	45 min
Jun 27, 5:24 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance	111 min
Jun 27, 5:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	2 hr
Jun 27, 5:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel, Santa Fe	116 min
Jun 27, 5:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	26 min
Jun 27, 5:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	49 min
Jun 27, 5:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	29 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.