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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 11, 2023Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2023, 5:28 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 15 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 11, 2023, 5:28 PM MDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2023, 5:43 PM MDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Quay County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 481 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -233 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1173 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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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 Jun 11, 2:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 5:06 PM MDT, 22 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
Jun 10, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	16 min
Jun 10, 6:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	38 min
Jun 11, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	62 min
Jun 11, 5:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	24 min
Jun 11, 5:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	28 min
Jun 11, 5:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	30 min
Jun 11, 5:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	32 min
Jun 11, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2023 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2023

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.