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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 28, 2021Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2021, 2:46 AM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 14 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 28, 2021, 2:46 AM MDT (08:46 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2021, 3:00 AM MDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

County Curry County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 474 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 27, 11:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 11:48 PM MDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 3:14 AM MDT, 23 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 2:46 AM MDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
246 AM MDT Fri May 28 2021

NMZ235-280900-
Curry County-
246 AM MDT Fri May 28 2021

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL CURRY COUNTY UNTIL
300 AM MDT...

At 246 AM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles west of Rhea, or 18 miles north of Clovis, moving east at 15
mph.

Penny size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of east central Curry
County.

&&

LAT...LON 3453 10325 3475 10322 3479 10305 3476 10304
      3454 10305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0846Z 265DEG 14KT 3468 10312

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 3:30 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	30 min
May 28, 3:46 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	44 min
May 28, 4:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	46 min
May 28, 4:37 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, Quay	113 min
May 28, 5:13 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	62 min
May 28, 6:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	48 min
May 28, 6:58 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	32 min
May 28, 12:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	31 min
May 28, 1:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		27 min
May 28, 1:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	37 min
May 28, 2:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	22 min
May 28, 2:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	34 min
May 28, 2:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	36 min
May 28, 2:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel, Torrance	61 min
May 28, 3:09 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	36 min
May 28, 3:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	26 min
May 28, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	27 min
May 28, 3:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay	54 min
May 28, 3:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	30 min
May 28, 3:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	58 min
May 28, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	32 min
May 28, 4:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	43 min
May 28, 4:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	41 min
May 28, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	47 min
May 28, 4:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay	54 min
May 28, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay	62 min
May 28, 4:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	30 min
May 28, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	62 min
May 28, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	62 min
May 28, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	62 min
May 28, 5:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	59 min
May 28, 5:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	25 min
May 28, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	62 min
May 28, 5:19 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	41 min
May 28, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	47 min
May 28, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	55 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.