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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 24, 2023Curry County, Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2023, 5:17 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 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: May 24, 2023, 5:17 PM MDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2023, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel 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
May 24, 2:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 1563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 May 24, 3:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 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
May 24, 1:09 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel, Taos	4 hr
May 24, 2:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	64 min
May 24, 2:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Colfax, Union	46 min
May 24, 2:38 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
May 24, 2:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Union	3 hr
May 24, 3:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	66 min
May 24, 3:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
May 24, 3:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	55 min
May 24, 4:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	56 min
May 24, 4:35 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	115 min
May 24, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	57 min
May 24, 5:09 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	3 hr
May 24, 5:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	3 hr
May 24, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Harding, Union	56 min
May 24, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Harding, Union	57 min
May 24, 5:49 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Quay, San Miguel	3 hr

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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.