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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 21, 2015Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2015, 4:01 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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 21, 2015, 4:01 PM MDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2015, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 347 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2015-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 106 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2015-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
904 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 6:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay29 min
Jul 20, 6:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCurry, De Baca, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt3 hr
Jul 20, 7:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCurry28 min
Jul 20, 7:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLos Alamos46 min
Jul 21, 1:09 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLincoln111 min
Jul 21, 1:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ34 min
Jul 21, 1:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Lincoln36 min
Jul 21, 2:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax31 min
Jul 21, 2:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora23 min
Jul 21, 3:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion35 min
Jul 21, 4:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion32 min
Jul 21, 5:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay35 min

Nearby

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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.