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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 29, 2023Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2023, 6:32 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 20 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 29, 2023, 6:32 PM MDT (00:32 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2023, 6:52 PM MDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 439 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: 4284 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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 29, 5:35 PM MDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 5:35 PM MDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 2:25 PM MDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 2:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 2 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 29, 6:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	3 hr
May 30, 3:17 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Sandoval, Socorro, Valencia	41 hr
May 30, 1:38 PM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora and 7 more	55 hr
May 30, 3:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	26 min
May 30, 3:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	38 min
May 30, 3:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	32 min
May 30, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	32 min
May 30, 4:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora, San Miguel	40 min
May 30, 4:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	28 min
May 30, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	50 min
May 30, 5:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		29 min
May 30, 5:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		27 min
May 30, 5:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	52 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.