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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 475, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 26, 2023Chaves County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 2023, 5:58 PM MDT for Chaves County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 21 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, 5:58 PM MDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Sep 26, 2023, 6:19 PM MDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chaves County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 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, 5:18 PM MDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 5:18 PM MDT, 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 26, 2:42 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
242 PM MDT Tue Sep 26 2023

NMZ228-231-262115-
Far Northeast Highlands-Harding County-
242 PM MDT Tue Sep 26 2023

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN HARDING AND EAST
CENTRAL MORA COUNTIES THROUGH 315 PM MDT...

At 242 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles west of Mills, or 19 miles east of Wagon Mound, moving east at
15 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

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

Locations impacted include...
Roy, Mills, and Chicosa Lake State Park.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

Accumulations of small hail on roads can create very slick and
hazardous driving conditions.

&&

LAT...LON 3604 10450 3622 10443 3623 10408 3585 10424
TIME...MOT...LOC 2042Z 287DEG 11KT 3611 10439

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

Shoemake

Special weather statement, Sep 26, 3:21 PM MDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
321 PM MDT Tue Sep 26 2023

NMZ239-262145-
Eastern Lincoln County-
321 PM MDT Tue Sep 26 2023

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY
THROUGH 345 PM MDT...

At 320 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 22
miles southwest of Ramon, or 24 miles southeast of Corona, moving
east at 10 mph.

HAZARD...Nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vegetation is possible.

This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of northeastern
Lincoln County.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

Accumulations of small hail on roads can create very slick and
hazardous driving conditions.

&&

LAT...LON 3400 10534 3417 10527 3412 10498 3387 10510
TIME...MOT...LOC 2120Z 290DEG 8KT 3406 10523

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...<30 MPH

Shoemake

Special weather statement, Sep 26, 4:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 26, 5:23 PM MDT, 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
Sep 26, 12:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	21 min
Sep 26, 1:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	34 min
Sep 26, 2:08 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves	3 hr
Sep 26, 2:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	30 min
Sep 26, 2:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	33 min
Sep 26, 3:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	24 min
Sep 26, 3:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	2 hr
Sep 26, 4:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln, Torrance	67 min
Sep 26, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	48 min
Sep 26, 4:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	31 min
Sep 26, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	30 min
Sep 26, 5:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Sep 26, 5:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.