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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 1, 2022Harding County, Quay County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2022, 4:48 PM MDT for Harding County, Quay County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 42 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: May 1, 2022, 4:48 PM MDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2022, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 1, 2:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2905 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 1, 2:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 2:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 1, 3:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
347 PM MDT Sun May 1 2022

NMZ236-012215-
Roosevelt County-
347 PM MDT Sun May 1 2022

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN
ROOSEVELT COUNTY THROUGH 415 PM MDT...

At 346 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 10
miles east of Crossroads, or 21 miles northeast of Tatum, moving
northeast at 45 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Causey and Lingo.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If threatening weather approaches your area, take shelter in a sturdy
building.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1000 PM MDT for
east central New Mexico.

&&

LAT...LON 3357 10328 3393 10320 3390 10305 3357 10306
TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 206DEG 37KT 3353 10317

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

Shoemake

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 2:19 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, Colfax, McKinley, Mora, San Juan and 4 more	18 hr
May 1, 2:15 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan	60 min
May 1, 2:52 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 6 more	25 hr
May 1, 2:52 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel, Union	29 hr
May 1, 3:18 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan	57 min
May 1, 4:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	28 min
May 1, 4:17 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan	28 min
May 1, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	48 min
May 1, 4:46 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan	89 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.