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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2021, 5:21 PM MDT. 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
- May 22, 2021, 5:21 PM MDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2021, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
730
WWUS85 KABQ 222321
SPSABQ
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
521 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021
NMZ232>234-236-237-222345-
Eastern San Miguel County-Guadalupe County-Roosevelt County-Quay
County-De Baca County-
521 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN ROOSEVELT...
SOUTHEASTERN SAN MIGUEL...NORTHEASTERN DE BACA...SOUTHWESTERN QUAY
AND NORTHEASTERN GUADALUPE COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM MDT...
At 521 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Montoya to 6 miles southwest of Taiban.
Movement was northeast at 30 mph.
Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
these storms.
Locations impacted include...
Tucumcari, House, Tolar, Montoya and Taiban.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 40 between Mile Markers 301 and 327.
Highway 60 between Mile Markers 334 and 353.
State Road 104 between Mile Markers 90 and 99.
&&
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 900 PM MDT for northeastern
and east central New Mexico.
LAT...LON 3429 10405 3475 10433 3519 10422 3537 10380
3437 10380
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 229DEG 25KT 3508 10411 3440 10411
$$
ShoemakeThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 6:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Quay | 25 min |
| May 21, 7:11 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 7 more | 29 hr |
| May 21, 7:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 30 min |
| May 21, 7:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry | 36 min |
| May 21, 7:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 28 min |
| May 21, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 46 min |
| May 21, 9:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 52 min |
| May 21, 9:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, Union | 53 min |
| May 21, 10:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 15 min |
| May 22, 12:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Santa Fe | 26 min |
| May 22, 12:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Santa Fe | 45 min |
| May 22, 1:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel, Santa Fe | 51 min |
| May 22, 1:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 26 min |
| May 22, 1:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Torrance | 25 min |
| May 22, 1:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 49 min |
| May 22, 1:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe | 51 min |
| May 22, 1:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 33 min |
| May 22, 2:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Juan | 26 min |
| May 22, 2:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 65 min |
| May 22, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 45 min |
| May 22, 2:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 6 hr |
| May 22, 2:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 35 min |
| May 22, 3:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 29 min | |
| May 22, 3:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 34 min |
| May 22, 3:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 37 min |
| May 22, 3:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 67 min |
| May 22, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 47 min |
| May 22, 3:31 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 13 hr | |
| May 22, 3:31 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 27 hr | |
| May 22, 3:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 28 min |
| May 22, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe | 41 min |
| May 22, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Taos | 24 min |
| May 22, 3:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 22, 3:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora | 44 min |
| May 22, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, San Miguel, Taos | 43 min |
| May 22, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 44 min |
| May 22, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 44 min |
| May 22, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, Taos | 41 min |
| May 22, 4:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 33 min | |
| May 22, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 45 min |
| May 22, 4:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln | 27 min |
| May 22, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora | 30 min |
| May 22, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 22 min |
| May 22, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 30 min |
| May 22, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 43 min |
| May 22, 5:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 33 min |
| May 22, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 45 min |
| May 22, 5:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Taos | 29 min |
| May 22, 5:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 38 min | |
| May 22, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 46 min |
| May 22, 5:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Roosevelt | 67 min |
| May 22, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 38 min |
| May 22, 5:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Taos | 37 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.