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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 24, 2019Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2019, 4:30 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 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 24, 2019, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2019, 5:15 PM MDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 30 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 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
30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-402 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 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 24, 2:48 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 2:48 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 6:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ49 min
Aug 23, 6:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Union47 min
Aug 23, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, San Miguel49 min
Aug 23, 7:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca23 min
Aug 23, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, Union39 min
Aug 23, 7:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca36 min
Aug 23, 8:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca31 min
Aug 23, 9:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt27 min
Aug 23, 9:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCurry, Roosevelt67 min
Aug 24, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.