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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 318, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2017, 12:40 PM MDT for Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 25 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 16, 2017, 12:40 PM MDT (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2017, 1:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Sandoval County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 409 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 16, 11:46 AM MDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 11:46 AM MDT, 54 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:10 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Santa Fe | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 6:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry | 47 min |
| Jul 15, 11:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Union | 109 min |
| Jul 16, 12:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 35 min |
| Jul 16, 12:51 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval | 114 min |
| Jul 16, 1:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 58 min |
| Jul 16, 2:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 24 min |
| Jul 16, 2:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 23 min |
| Jul 16, 2:27 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 2:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Sandoval | 31 min |
| Jul 16, 2:49 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe | 116 min |
| Jul 16, 3:09 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 4:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Catron | 31 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.