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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 21, 2018Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2018, 3:27 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 33 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 21, 2018, 3:27 PM MDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 21, 2018, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Guadalupe County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 284 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 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 21, 2:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 2:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 21, 3:30 AM MDT, 11 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 21, 2:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 21, 2:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 21, 2:18 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 21, 2:29 PM MDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 21, 3:02 PM MDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 21, 3:19 PM MDT, 8 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 20, 6:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	21 min
Aug 21, 12:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	3 hr
Aug 21, 1:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola	43 min
Aug 21, 1:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	44 min
Aug 21, 1:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	32 min
Aug 21, 2:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	23 min
Aug 21, 2:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	50 min
Aug 21, 2:14 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba	3 hr
Aug 21, 2:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		42 min
Aug 21, 2:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	46 min
Aug 21, 2:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola, Valencia	3 hr
Aug 21, 2:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, Valencia	25 min
Aug 21, 2:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Aug 21, 3:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	28 min
Aug 21, 3:12 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	2 hr
Aug 21, 3:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	41 min
Aug 21, 3:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	37 min
Aug 21, 3:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	29 min
Aug 21, 3:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	51 min
Aug 21, 3:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	4 hr
Aug 21, 3:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	49 min
Aug 21, 4:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	50 min
Aug 21, 4:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Santa Fe	2 hr
Aug 21, 4:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	38 min
Aug 21, 4:26 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Union	2 hr
Aug 21, 4:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	26 min
Aug 21, 5:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	30 min
Aug 21, 5:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	25 min
Aug 21, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	35 min
Aug 21, 5:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe, Torrance	2 hr
Aug 21, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	17 min
Aug 21, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	52 min
Aug 21, 5:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	35 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.