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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 470, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 26, 2023Chaves County, De Baca County, Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 2023, 1:14 PM MDT for Chaves County, De Baca County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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
Sep 26, 2023, 1:14 PM MDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 2023, 1:48 PM MDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 318 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 844 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2023-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -50 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
844 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 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 Sep 26, 11:51 AM MDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 11:51 AM MDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 12:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves21 min
Sep 26, 2:08 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQChaves3 hr
Sep 26, 2:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Lincoln30 min
Sep 26, 2:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQHarding33 min
Sep 26, 3:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQLincoln24 min
Sep 26, 3:42 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSocorro2 hr
Sep 26, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln, Torrance67 min
Sep 26, 4:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro48 min
Sep 26, 4:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSocorro31 min
Sep 26, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro30 min
Sep 26, 5:10 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSocorro3 hr
Sep 26, 5:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQRoosevelt37 min
Sep 26, 5:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Roosevelt21 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.