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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 17, 2024Harding County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2024, 3:22 PM MDT for Harding County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 53 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 17, 2024, 3:22 PM MDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2024, 4:15 PM MDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Harding County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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
Sep 17, 12:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 300 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 17, 3:08 PM MDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 3:08 PM MDT, 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 17, 2:22 PM MDT, 1 hour before

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Local storm report, Sep 17, 2:27 PM MDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 17, 2:48 PM MDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 17, 3:05 PM MDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 17, 3:07 PM MDT, 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 17, 3:12 PM MDT, 10 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 17, 5:02 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	4 hr
Sep 17, 9:36 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	24 min
Sep 17, 9:40 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Juan	35 min
Sep 17, 10:29 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		31 min
Sep 17, 11:31 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	29 min
Sep 17, 11:36 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	24 min
Sep 17, 11:59 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		31 min
Sep 17, 11:59 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Torrance	61 min
Sep 17, 12:02 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	28 min
Sep 17, 12:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	26 min
Sep 17, 12:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos	64 min
Sep 17, 12:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Rio Arriba	32 min
Sep 17, 12:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	38 min
Sep 17, 12:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		31 min
Sep 17, 12:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln	67 min
Sep 17, 12:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora, Rio Arriba, Taos	56 min
Sep 17, 12:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	62 min
Sep 17, 1:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	44 min
Sep 17, 1:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	56 min
Sep 17, 1:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	37 min
Sep 17, 1:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	58 min
Sep 17, 1:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	25 min
Sep 17, 1:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	38 min
Sep 17, 1:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	31 min
Sep 17, 1:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	29 min
Sep 17, 1:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	24 min
Sep 17, 1:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	68 min
Sep 17, 2:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln	45 min
Sep 17, 2:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	29 min
Sep 17, 2:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	23 min
Sep 17, 2:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	40 min
Sep 17, 2:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel, Union	48 min
Sep 17, 2:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	27 min
Sep 17, 2:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	51 min
Sep 17, 3:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Miguel, Santa Fe	43 min
Sep 17, 3:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	25 min
Sep 17, 3:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	23 min
Sep 17, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	33 min
Sep 17, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	45 min
Sep 17, 3:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	33 min
Sep 17, 3:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	37 min
Sep 17, 3:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		32 min
Sep 17, 3:51 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	101 min
Sep 17, 3:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Sandoval	111 min
Sep 17, 4:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	24 min
Sep 17, 4:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	32 min
Sep 17, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt	20 min
Sep 17, 4:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	29 min
Sep 17, 4:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	24 min
Sep 17, 4:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	36 min
Sep 17, 4:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	33 min
Sep 17, 5:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	24 min
Sep 17, 5:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	33 min
Sep 17, 5:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	31 min
Sep 17, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	48 min
Sep 17, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	23 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.