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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 24, 2022Chaves County, De Baca County, Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2022, 11:50 AM MDT for Chaves County, De Baca County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 40 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 24, 2022, 11:50 AM MDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2022, 12:30 PM MDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 318 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: 966 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 24, 5:20 AM MDT, 6 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 5:20 AM MDT, 6 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 24, 11:44 AM MDT, 6 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
May 23, 7:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	38 min
May 23, 7:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry	2 hr
May 23, 7:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	41 min
May 23, 8:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	45 min
May 23, 9:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	44 min
May 23, 9:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	30 min
May 23, 10:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	33 min
May 23, 11:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	34 min
May 23, 11:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	37 min
May 24, 12:14 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	46 min
May 24, 2:01 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, McKinley, San Juan	18 hr
May 24, 11:44 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	31 min
May 24, 11:54 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	36 min
May 24, 12:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	61 min
May 24, 12:32 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	118 min
May 24, 1:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	32 min
May 24, 1:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	34 min
May 24, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	60 min
May 24, 2:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	40 min
May 24, 2:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	37 min
May 24, 2:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	50 min
May 24, 2:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	19 min
May 24, 3:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	28 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.