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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 481, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 30, 2023Chaves County, De Baca County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 2023, 7:43 PM MDT for Chaves County, De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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, 7:43 PM MDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired: Sep 30, 2023, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chaves County, NM, De Baca County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 655 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 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 30, 5:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 5:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 30, 4:15 PM MDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 30, 4:18 PM MDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 30, 6:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 30, 7:14 PM MDT, 29 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 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, 7:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	42 min
Sep 30, 7:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		31 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 Considerable damage threat	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 Considerable damage threat	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.