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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 480, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 2023, 7:03 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 42 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 30, 2023, 7:03 PM MDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2023, 7:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Chaves County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 264 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 358 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 30, 5:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 5:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Sep 30, 3:31 PM MDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
331 PM MDT Sat Sep 30 2023
NMZ226-239-302200-
Eastern Lincoln County-South Central Mountains-
331 PM MDT Sat Sep 30 2023
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY
THROUGH 400 PM MDT...
At 331 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Hondo, or 18 miles east of Ruidoso, moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny 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...
Hondo, Tinnie, San Patricio, and Sunset.
This includes Highway 380 between Mile Markers 99 and 107.
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 3330 10532 3331 10548 3332 10550 3355 10530
3332 10502 3319 10532
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 228DEG 15KT 3331 10533
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
CASpecial weather statement, Sep 30, 4:15 PM MDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 6:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Torrance | 32 min |
| Sep 30, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 50 min |
| Sep 30, 7:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 31 min | |
| Sep 30, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca | 62 min |
| Sep 30, 7:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 37 min |
| Sep 30, 9:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Harding | 23 min |
| Sep 30, 11:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 36 min |
| Sep 30, 11:13 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves | 2 hr |
| Oct 1, 2:14 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, McKinley, Sandoval and 5 more | 18 hr |
| Oct 1, 2:18 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan | 17 hr |
| Oct 1, 2:28 AM MDT | Flood Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos | 46 hr |
| Oct 1, 1:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Oct 1, 1:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 22 min |
| Oct 1, 2:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Oct 1, 2:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 28 min | |
| Oct 1, 2:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln | 33 min |
| Oct 1, 3:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 25 min | |
| Oct 1, 3:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Quay | 50 min |
| Oct 1, 3:19 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 2 hr |
| Oct 1, 3:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 28 min |
| Oct 1, 4:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Oct 1, 4:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 25 min | |
| Oct 1, 4:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 31 min | |
| Oct 1, 4:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Quay | 27 min |
| Oct 1, 4:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Oct 1, 5:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Quay | 26 min |
| Oct 1, 5:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| Oct 1, 5:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 34 min |
| Oct 1, 5:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry | 33 min |
| Oct 1, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 40 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.