Alert archive / New Mexico / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Oct 9, 2016, 6:21 PM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 39 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
- Oct 9, 2016, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2016, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
County Harding County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 239 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted.
507 WWUS85 KABQ 100021 SPSABQ SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 621 PM MDT SUN OCT 9 2016 NMZ528-530-531-100100- UNION COUNTY-HARDING COUNTY-FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- 621 PM MDT SUN OCT 9 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN UNION...NORTH CENTRAL HARDING AND SOUTHEASTERN COLFAX COUNTIES UNTIL 700 PM MDT... AT 621 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLADSTONE...OR 30 MILES NORTH OF MOSQUERO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. PENNY SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GLADSTONE AND YATES. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. ACCUMULATIONS OF SMALL HAIL ON ROADS CAN CREATE VERY SLICK AND HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. && LAT...LON 3613 10426 3629 10416 3635 10384 3606 10382 TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 268DEG 12KT 3620 10409 $$ CA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 6:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 26 min |
| Oct 9, 6:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 24 min |
| Oct 9, 6:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 48 min |
| Oct 9, 6:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 40 min |
| Oct 9, 6:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 43 min |
| Oct 9, 7:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 23 min | |
| Oct 9, 7:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 43 min |
| Oct 9, 7:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 42 min |
| Oct 9, 8:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 38 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New Mexico, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.