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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2021, 2:01 PM MDT for Taos 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2021, 2:01 PM MDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2021, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
County Taos County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jul 18, 12:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 12:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 2:01 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Albuquerque NM 201 PM MDT Sun Jul 18 2021 NMZ214-216-217-182045- Upper Rio Grande Valley-Southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains-Espanola Valley- 201 PM MDT Sun Jul 18 2021 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT... At 200 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near Penasco, or 11 miles south of Taos along Highway 518, moving southwest at 15 mph. Half inch hail will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Penasco, Tres Ritos, Rio Lucio, Llano, Chamisal, Picuris Pueblo, Llano Largo, Vadito, Ojo Sarco and Rodarte. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. && LAT...LON 3633 10562 3622 10544 3600 10559 3613 10587 TIME...MOT...LOC 2000Z 037DEG 14KT 3622 10559 31
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 17, 6:04 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Quay | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 6:13 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 6:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Harding | 29 min |
| Jul 17, 6:50 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Harding, Union | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 33 min |
| Jul 17, 7:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Curry, Quay, San Miguel | 118 min |
| Jul 17, 7:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Santa Fe | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 7:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry | 36 min |
| Jul 17, 7:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 28 min |
| Jul 17, 8:02 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan | 118 min |
| Jul 17, 8:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry | 37 min |
| Jul 17, 8:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 30 min |
| Jul 17, 8:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry | 20 min |
| Jul 17, 8:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Roosevelt | 27 min |
| Jul 17, 8:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry | 24 min |
| Jul 17, 9:01 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval, Santa Fe | 119 min |
| Jul 17, 9:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Jul 17, 11:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 12:08 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Quay | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:21 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 12:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 2:31 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Sandoval | 119 min |
| Jul 18, 2:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 49 min | |
| Jul 18, 3:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Cibola | 117 min |
| Jul 18, 3:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:45 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Santa Fe | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 51 min |
| Jul 18, 5:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Miguel | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 5:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Harding | 30 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.