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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 5, 2023Colfax County, Harding County, Mora County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2023, 4:15 PM MDT for Colfax County, Harding County, Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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: Jul 5, 2023, 4:15 PM MDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2023, 5:15 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Colfax County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 5, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 3485 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 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 Jul 5, 3:59 PM MDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:59 PM MDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 3:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
300 PM MDT Wed Jul 5 2023

NMZ228-052130-
Far Northeast Highlands-
300 PM MDT Wed Jul 5 2023

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN MORA
AND SOUTH CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM MDT...

At 300 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 9
miles west of Springer, moving southeast at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Springer and Miami.

This includes Interstate 25 between Mile Markers 394 and 418.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If threatening weather approaches your area, take shelter in a sturdy
building.

Motorists can expect brief but sudden changes in visibility and
ponding of water on highways as storms move through the area.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 1100 PM MDT for
northeastern New Mexico.

&&

LAT...LON 3629 10490 3647 10484 3641 10442 3607 10467
TIME...MOT...LOC 2100Z 309DEG 9KT 3633 10476

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH

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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 5, 4:35 AM MDT	Heat Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Sandoval, Socorro, Torrance and 1 more	39 hr
Jul 5, 6:29 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Cibola, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan and 2 more	32 hr
Jul 5, 3:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	30 min
Jul 5, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	62 min
Jul 5, 4:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	3 hr
Jul 5, 5:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		30 min
Jul 5, 5:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	27 min
Jul 5, 5:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	53 min
Jul 5, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	33 min
Jul 5, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora, San Miguel	67 min

Nearby

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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.