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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 3, 2015Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2015, 5:56 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 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: Aug 3, 2015, 5:56 PM MDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2015, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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 Aug 3, 3:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 3:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 5:30 AM MDT, 12 hours 26 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
530 AM MDT MON AUG 3 2015

NMZ501>540-041200-
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-
530 AM MDT MON AUG 3 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

PATCHY DENSE FOG IS POSSIBLE EARLY THIS MORNING OVER PORTIONS OF
WESTERN NEW MEXICO. ISOLATED STRONG STORMS WITH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS
TO AROUND 50 MPH AS WELL AS LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE
NORTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...WEATHER CAN
CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND
WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAINFALL...WIND GUSTS OR HAIL
THROUGH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE WEB SITE AT
WEATHER.GOV/ABQ OR BY CALLING 1.888.386.7637. YOU CAN ALSO SUBMIT
STORM REPORTS AND PHOTOS ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE OR VIA TWITTER USING
THE HASHTAG N M W X.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 4:22 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 3, 4:57 PM MDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:04 PM MDT, 52 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
Aug 2, 6:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	29 min
Aug 2, 7:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	41 min
Aug 2, 7:24 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	San Juan	2 hr
Aug 2, 7:28 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan	92 min
Aug 2, 7:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	118 min
Aug 2, 7:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	114 min
Aug 2, 7:58 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	2 hr
Aug 2, 8:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	51 min
Aug 2, 8:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Quay	4 hr
Aug 2, 9:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	25 min
Aug 2, 9:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Juan	2 hr
Aug 2, 9:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	50 min
Aug 2, 9:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		44 min
Aug 2, 9:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	2 hr
Aug 3, 4:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	23 min
Aug 3, 5:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	26 min
Aug 3, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	41 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.