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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 305, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 5, 2015Cibola County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 2015, 3:16 PM MST for Cibola County, New Mexico. It was in force for 29 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
Oct 5, 2015, 3:16 PM MST (22:16 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 2015, 3:45 PM MST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Cibola County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 348 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, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2015-10-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 91 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2015-10-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
91 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 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
Oct 4, 6:49 PM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryABQ14 hr
Oct 5, 1:36 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan24 min
Oct 5, 2:26 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan19 min
Oct 5, 2:55 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementABQCibola35 min
Oct 5, 3:44 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCibola31 min
Oct 5, 4:18 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementABQ27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2015Every 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.