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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2019, 8:28 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 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 26, 2019, 8:28 PM MDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2019, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Colfax County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 Aug 26, 5:41 PM MDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 5:41 PM MDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 26, 8:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 15 min |
| Aug 27, 2:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 2:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval, Santa Fe | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 3:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 28 min |
| Aug 27, 4:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 33 min |
| Aug 27, 4:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Socorro | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 4:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 55 min |
| Aug 27, 4:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 36 min |
| Aug 27, 4:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 4:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 44 min |
| Aug 27, 5:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 31 min |
Nearby
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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.