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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 412, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 21, 2023Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2023, 4:03 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 10 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 21, 2023, 4:03 PM MDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2023, 4:13 PM MDT
In force: 10 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Colfax 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 21, 3:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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: 2555 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -22 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 21, 3:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:02 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:43 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 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 20, 6:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	35 min
Jul 21, 1:14 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	61 min
Jul 21, 1:42 AM MDT	Heat Advisory	ABQ	McKinley, San Juan	18 hr
Jul 21, 2:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	41 min
Jul 21, 2:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	32 min
Jul 21, 3:11 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, Taos	3 hr
Jul 21, 3:31 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Jul 21, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	38 min
Jul 21, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	17 min
Jul 21, 4:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	66 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.