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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2020, 5:16 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 32 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, 5:16 PM MDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2020, 5:48 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 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
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 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 3:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:02 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax | 118 min |
| Aug 3, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 6:07 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 113 min |
| Aug 3, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 48 min |
| Aug 3, 6:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 16 min |
| Aug 3, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 16 min |
| Aug 3, 7:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance | 28 min |
| Aug 3, 7:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Torrance | 26 min |
| Aug 3, 8:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Torrance | 34 min |
| Aug 3, 8:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 24 min |
| Aug 3, 9:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Aug 3, 9:09 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln, Torrance | 111 min |
| Aug 3, 9:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 20 min |
| Aug 3, 9:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Quay | 32 min |
| Aug 3, 10:07 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln | 113 min |
| Aug 4, 1:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron | 112 min |
| Aug 4, 3:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 37 min |
| Aug 4, 3:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 5:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 28 min |
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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.