Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2022

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 3, 2022Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2022, 1:27 PM MDT for Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 21 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: Jun 3, 2022, 1:27 PM MDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2022, 1:48 PM MDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 4251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jun 3, 11:38 AM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 11:38 AM MDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 7:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	33 min
Jun 2, 7:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	45 min
Jun 2, 8:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	28 min
Jun 2, 8:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	28 min
Jun 2, 8:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	52 min
Jun 2, 9:10 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	3 hr
Jun 2, 9:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	36 min
Jun 2, 10:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lea	37 min
Jun 3, 1:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		26 min
Jun 3, 1:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	36 min
Jun 3, 2:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	40 min
Jun 3, 2:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	36 min
Jun 3, 2:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		27 min
Jun 3, 2:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	26 min
Jun 3, 3:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	49 min
Jun 3, 3:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	31 min
Jun 3, 3:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	26 min
Jun 3, 3:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	52 min
Jun 3, 3:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	27 min
Jun 3, 3:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	36 min
Jun 3, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	61 min
Jun 3, 4:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	67 min
Jun 3, 4:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	3 hr
Jun 3, 4:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	35 min
Jun 3, 4:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	24 min
Jun 3, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	56 min
Jun 3, 5:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	61 min
Jun 3, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2022 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2022

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.