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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 352, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 7, 2023Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2023, 4:58 PM MDT for Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 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 7, 2023, 4:58 PM MDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2023, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM

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 7, 1:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 1267 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -292 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1190 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 409 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 7, 3:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 3:06 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 7, 4:04 PM MDT, 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:13 PM MDT, 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 7, 4:25 PM MDT, 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 7, 4:26 PM MDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:34 PM MDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 4:41 PM MDT, 17 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 7, 12:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	24 min
Jul 7, 1:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	41 min
Jul 7, 1:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	24 min
Jul 7, 1:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln, Quay	3 hr
Jul 7, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	40 min
Jul 7, 1:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	47 min
Jul 7, 1:46 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	3 hr
Jul 7, 1:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	51 min
Jul 7, 1:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	34 min
Jul 7, 2:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	49 min
Jul 7, 2:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	47 min
Jul 7, 2:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel, Union	3 hr
Jul 7, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	50 min
Jul 7, 2:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	47 min
Jul 7, 2:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr
Jul 7, 2:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	49 min
Jul 7, 2:52 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Cibola, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan	13 hr
Jul 7, 3:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	40 min
Jul 7, 3:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	52 min
Jul 7, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	32 min
Jul 7, 3:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	55 min
Jul 7, 3:37 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	3 hr
Jul 7, 3:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	29 min
Jul 7, 4:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	32 min
Jul 7, 4:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	26 min
Jul 7, 4:41 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		34 min
Jul 7, 5:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	30 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.