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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 3, 2019Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2019, 12:47 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 43 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: Jun 3, 2019, 12:47 PM MDT (18:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2019, 1:30 PM MDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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, 6.8 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-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: 539 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 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 Jun 3, 11:40 AM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 11:40 AM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:06 AM MDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:01 PM MDT, 46 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
Jun 2, 6:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	29 min
Jun 2, 6:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	24 min
Jun 2, 6:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	30 min
Jun 2, 6:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	27 min
Jun 2, 6:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	25 min
Jun 2, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	66 min
Jun 2, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	46 min
Jun 2, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	60 min
Jun 2, 6:47 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	3 hr
Jun 2, 6:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	26 min
Jun 2, 7:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	25 min
Jun 2, 7:15 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr
Jun 2, 7:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	17 min
Jun 2, 7:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	47 min
Jun 2, 8:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	11 min
Jun 2, 9:05 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr
Jun 2, 9:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	29 min
Jun 2, 10:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	29 min
Jun 2, 10:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		26 min
Jun 3, 12:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	44 min
Jun 3, 1:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	30 min
Jun 3, 1:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	50 min
Jun 3, 1:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	25 min
Jun 3, 1:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 3, 2:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 3, 2:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	30 min
Jun 3, 2:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	41 min
Jun 3, 2:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	42 min
Jun 3, 2:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	39 min
Jun 3, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	50 min
Jun 3, 2:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	43 min
Jun 3, 2:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		27 min
Jun 3, 2:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	67 min
Jun 3, 2:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	32 min
Jun 3, 2:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	41 min
Jun 3, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	36 min
Jun 3, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	58 min
Jun 3, 3:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	24 min
Jun 3, 3:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	30 min
Jun 3, 3:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	35 min
Jun 3, 3:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	56 min
Jun 3, 3:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	32 min
Jun 3, 3:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Union	32 min
Jun 3, 3:48 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	22 min
Jun 3, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	61 min
Jun 3, 4:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 3, 4:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	28 min
Jun 3, 4:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	52 min
Jun 3, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	61 min
Jun 3, 4:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	23 min
Jun 3, 4:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	29 min
Jun 3, 4:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	17 min
Jun 3, 5:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance	52 min
Jun 3, 5:13 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr
Jun 3, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	30 min
Jun 3, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	29 min
Jun 3, 5:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		39 min
Jun 3, 5:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	38 min
Jun 3, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	61 min
Jun 3, 5:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	49 min
Jun 3, 5:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr

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.