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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 8, 2019Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Oct 8, 2019, 4:21 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Oct 8, 2019, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 2019, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

County Chaves County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 266 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: 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 text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 8, 2:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	30 min
Oct 8, 2:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	41 min
Oct 8, 2:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	49 min
Oct 8, 3:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	41 min
Oct 8, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro	35 min
Oct 8, 4:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	31 min
Oct 8, 5:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	28 min
Oct 8, 5:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	33 min
Oct 8, 5:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	42 min
Oct 8, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	47 min
Oct 8, 5:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	25 min
Oct 8, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro	35 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New Mexico, 2019 Every special weather statement 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.