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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 488, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 2, 2023Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 2023, 1:44 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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: Oct 2, 2023, 1:44 PM MDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 2023, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 2, 1:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1051 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Oct 2, 11:48 AM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 11:48 AM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 2, 8:41 AM MDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 2, 11:39 AM MDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 2, 12:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 2, 12:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 2, 1:14 PM MDT, 30 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
Oct 1, 6:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	35 min
Oct 1, 6:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	54 min
Oct 1, 9:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	33 min
Oct 1, 9:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	26 min
Oct 1, 9:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	32 min
Oct 1, 9:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	27 min
Oct 2, 12:59 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Oct 2, 10:56 AM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABQ	Chaves	9 hr
Oct 2, 11:39 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	36 min
Oct 2, 12:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	37 min
Oct 2, 12:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	35 min
Oct 2, 1:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	39 min
Oct 2, 1:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	31 min
Oct 2, 1:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	52 min
Oct 2, 2:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	28 min
Oct 2, 2:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	37 min
Oct 2, 2:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	31 min
Oct 2, 2:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	26 min
Oct 2, 2:39 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Oct 2, 2:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	30 min
Oct 2, 2:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	54 min
Oct 2, 2:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	3 hr
Oct 2, 2:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	32 min
Oct 2, 3:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	29 min
Oct 2, 3:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lea	25 min
Oct 2, 3:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, Roosevelt	28 min
Oct 2, 3:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves	61 min
Oct 2, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	61 min
Oct 2, 3:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	54 min
Oct 2, 3:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	36 min
Oct 2, 3:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	34 min
Oct 2, 4:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	53 min
Oct 2, 4:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	68 min
Oct 2, 4:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	16 min
Oct 2, 4:52 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	3 hr
Oct 2, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora, Union	53 min
Oct 2, 4:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	33 min
Oct 2, 4:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	31 min
Oct 2, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	28 min
Oct 2, 5:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	21 min
Oct 2, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	43 min
Oct 2, 5:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	28 min
Oct 2, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	37 min
Oct 2, 5:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	25 min
Oct 2, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	37 min
Oct 2, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	62 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.