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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 20, 2020Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2020, 12:24 AM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 25 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 20, 2020, 12:24 AM MDT (06:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2020, 12:49 AM MDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 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 06:27 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 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.

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: 365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -262 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 19, 5:59 PM MDT, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 5:59 PM MDT, 6 hours 25 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 19, 6:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	42 min
Jun 19, 6:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	23 min
Jun 19, 6:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	15 min
Jun 19, 10:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	26 min
Jun 19, 10:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	40 min
Jun 19, 11:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	32 min
Jun 20, 12:23 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	52 min
Jun 20, 1:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	45 min
Jun 20, 2:11 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2020 Every 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.