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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 4, 2020Mora County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2020, 4:25 PM MDT for Mora County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 39 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 4, 2020, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2020, 5:04 PM MDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 294 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 2020-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 24 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 2020-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 251 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
24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-351 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
435 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 4, 3:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 3:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 3:53 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 4, 3:57 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 6:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQColfax118 min
Aug 3, 6:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel41 min
Aug 3, 6:07 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQGuadalupe, San Miguel113 min
Aug 3, 6:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval48 min
Aug 3, 6:25 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQBernalillo, Sandoval2 hr
Aug 3, 6:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax16 min
Aug 3, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval16 min
Aug 3, 7:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLincoln27 min
Aug 3, 7:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance28 min
Aug 3, 7:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTorrance26 min
Aug 3, 8:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTorrance34 min
Aug 3, 8:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLincoln24 min
Aug 3, 9:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLincoln29 min
Aug 3, 9:09 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLincoln, Torrance111 min
Aug 3, 9:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLincoln20 min
Aug 3, 9:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay32 min
Aug 3, 10:07 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLincoln113 min
Aug 4, 1:38 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCatron112 min
Aug 4, 3:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax37 min
Aug 4, 3:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora33 min
Aug 4, 4:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax23 min
Aug 4, 5:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion28 min
Aug 4, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.