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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 20, 2015Guadalupe County, Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2015, 4:37 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, Quay County, San Miguel 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
Jul 20, 2015, 4:37 PM MDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2015, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Guadalupe County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 244 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2015-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 761 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2015-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
761 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-196 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry15 min
Jul 20, 12:55 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQMora, San Miguel110 min
Jul 20, 2:05 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLincoln115 min
Jul 20, 2:14 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQRoosevelt2 hr
Jul 20, 2:19 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQRoosevelt116 min
Jul 20, 2:32 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQMora, San Miguel, Santa Fe118 min
Jul 20, 3:33 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQTorrance117 min
Jul 20, 3:53 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSocorro112 min
Jul 20, 4:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ25 min
Jul 20, 4:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTorrance43 min
Jul 20, 4:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay48 min
Jul 20, 4:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca25 min
Jul 20, 5:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQTorrance118 min
Jul 20, 5:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay36 min
Jul 20, 5:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCurry, Quay115 min
Jul 20, 5:23 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQHarding, Quay, San Miguel2 hr
Jul 20, 5:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCurry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt50 min
Jul 20, 5:45 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQDe Baca2 hr

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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.