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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 11, 2023Harding County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2023, 11:51 PM MDT for Harding County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 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, 11:51 PM MDT (05:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2023, 12:45 AM MDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Harding County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 1144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 6.7

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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, 11:49 PM MDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 11:49 PM MDT, 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 8:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 9:11 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 9:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 9:51 PM MDT, 2 hours before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 10:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 31 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 11, 6:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	27 min
Jun 11, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	18 min
Jun 11, 6:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	23 min
Jun 11, 7:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	38 min
Jun 11, 7:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	36 min
Jun 11, 7:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	34 min
Jun 11, 8:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	59 min
Jun 11, 8:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	64 min
Jun 11, 8:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	32 min
Jun 11, 9:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	34 min
Jun 11, 9:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	52 min
Jun 11, 9:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	26 min
Jun 11, 9:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	24 min
Jun 11, 10:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	25 min
Jun 11, 10:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	45 min
Jun 11, 10:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	25 min
Jun 11, 11:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	58 min
Jun 11, 11:19 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	26 min
Jun 11, 11:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	66 min
Jun 11, 11:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	47 min
Jun 11, 11:55 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	3 hr
Jun 11, 11:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	31 min
Jun 12, 12:14 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	3 hr
Jun 12, 12:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	46 min
Jun 12, 12:31 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	29 min
Jun 12, 12:34 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Union	3 hr
Jun 12, 12:36 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	54 min
Jun 12, 12:52 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Union	3 hr
Jun 12, 12:55 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	35 min
Jun 12, 1:01 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	44 min
Jun 12, 1:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	30 min
Jun 12, 1:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	61 min
Jun 12, 1:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	59 min
Jun 12, 1:46 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	29 min
Jun 12, 2:28 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	62 min
Jun 12, 2:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	60 min
Jun 12, 3:08 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Union	3 hr
Jun 12, 3:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	60 min
Jun 12, 3:42 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	26 min
Jun 12, 4:08 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	3 hr
Jun 12, 4:22 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Lincoln, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Socorro, Torrance and 1 more	16 hr
Jun 12, 4:30 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	42 min
Jun 12, 4:43 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	32 min
Jun 12, 6:59 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	3 hr
Jun 12, 8:05 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	25 min
Jun 12, 8:31 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	2 hr
Jun 12, 10:49 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union	9 hr
Jun 12, 11:02 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax	5 hr
Jun 12, 12:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	23 min
Jun 12, 12:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	30 min
Jun 12, 1:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	60 min
Jun 12, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	60 min
Jun 12, 1:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	56 min
Jun 12, 2:17 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jun 12, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	45 min
Jun 12, 2:34 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jun 12, 2:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	35 min
Jun 12, 3:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Harding	3 hr
Jun 12, 3:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	30 min
Jun 12, 3:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	28 min
Jun 12, 3:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	37 min
Jun 12, 3:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	63 min
Jun 12, 3:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	30 min
Jun 12, 3:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	2 hr
Jun 12, 4:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Union	3 hr
Jun 12, 4:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	29 min
Jun 12, 4:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	3 hr
Jun 12, 4:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	32 min
Jun 12, 5:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	47 min
Jun 12, 5:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	30 min
Jun 12, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay	46 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.