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Heat Advisory 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 16, 202318 counties in New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this heat advisory at Jul 16, 2023, 2:34 AM MDT for 18 counties in New Mexico. It took effect at Jul 17, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 2023, 2:34 AM MDT (08:34 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 17, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Jul 17, 2023, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Catron County, NM, Chaves County, NM, Cibola County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Quay County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, San Juan County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 27 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: 300 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3937 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 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 heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 15, 11:20 PM MDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 11:20 PM MDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 15, 8:51 PM MDT, 5 hours 43 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
Jul 15, 6:01 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	119 min
Jul 15, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	61 min
Jul 15, 6:50 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 15, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	64 min
Jul 15, 7:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	43 min
Jul 15, 7:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt, San Miguel	55 min
Jul 15, 7:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance	62 min
Jul 15, 7:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	48 min
Jul 15, 7:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	62 min
Jul 15, 8:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	27 min
Jul 15, 8:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	114 min
Jul 15, 8:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt	50 min
Jul 15, 8:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	ABQ	Harding	42 min
Jul 15, 8:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	17 min
Jul 15, 8:33 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	3 hr
Jul 15, 8:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	61 min
Jul 15, 9:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	30 min
Jul 15, 11:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	33 min
Jul 16, 1:50 PM MDT	Excessive Heat Watch	ABQ	Chaves	13 hr

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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.