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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 263, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 8, 2019Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 2019, 2:41 PM MDT for Socorro County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 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
Oct 8, 2019, 2:41 PM MDT (20:41 UTC)
Expired
Oct 8, 2019, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 239 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2019-10-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 134 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2019-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 97 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-220 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1253 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 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
Oct 8, 2:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSocorro30 min
Oct 8, 2:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro41 min
Oct 8, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves41 min
Oct 8, 3:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln, Socorro35 min
Oct 8, 4:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQChaves24 min
Oct 8, 4:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQChaves31 min
Oct 8, 5:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSocorro28 min
Oct 8, 5:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca33 min
Oct 8, 5:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro42 min
Oct 8, 5:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro47 min
Oct 8, 5:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQDe Baca25 min
Oct 8, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln, Socorro35 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.