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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 326, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 11, 2018Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 2018, 4:46 PM MDT for Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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
Sep 11, 2018, 4:46 PM MDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired
Sep 11, 2018, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 377 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2018-09-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2018-09-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -7 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-278 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 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
Sep 11, 3:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora39 min
Sep 11, 4:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion49 min
Sep 11, 4:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax50 min
Sep 11, 5:05 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQColfax115 min
Sep 11, 5:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax46 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.