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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 4, 2020Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2020, 5:31 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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
Sep 4, 2020, 5:31 PM MDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2020, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 383 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2020-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2020-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 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
Sep 4, 1:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQMora, San Miguel110 min
Sep 4, 2:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora31 min
Sep 4, 2:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora, San Miguel22 min
Sep 4, 5:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax24 min
Sep 4, 5:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax36 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.