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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 23, 2016Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2016, 3:03 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2016, 3:03 PM MDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2016, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 188 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 263 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: 101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -248 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

334 
WWUS85 KABQ 232103
SPSABQ

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
303 PM MDT THU JUN 23 2016
 
NMZ527-232130-
RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA-
303 PM MDT THU JUN 23 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY UNTIL
330 PM MDT...

AT 303 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13
MILES WEST OF RATON CREWS AIRPORT...OR 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RATON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL
COLFAX COUNTY.

FREQUENT DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS
STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A
SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A
STURDY BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 3687 10449 3687 10453 3688 10455 3686 10456
      3685 10450 3681 10449 3663 10473 3668 10479
      3673 10481 3673 10482 3675 10482 3678 10486
      3697 10461
TIME...MOT...LOC 2103Z 227DEG 23KT 3675 10474 

$$

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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 22, 8:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	34 min
Jun 22, 8:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	118 min
Jun 23, 12:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	34 min
Jun 23, 1:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	30 min
Jun 23, 1:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	114 min
Jun 23, 1:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	47 min
Jun 23, 2:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	32 min
Jun 23, 3:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	35 min
Jun 23, 3:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	27 min
Jun 23, 3:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	25 min
Jun 23, 4:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	24 min
Jun 23, 4:49 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Torrance	116 min
Jun 23, 5:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	21 min
Jun 23, 5:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	2 hr
Jun 23, 5:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	37 min
Jun 23, 5:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Torrance	116 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.