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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 21, 2024Rio Arriba County, Taos County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 2024, 5:15 PM MDT for Rio Arriba County, Taos County, New Mexico. It was in force for 20 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 21, 2024, 5:15 PM MDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Sep 21, 2024, 5:35 PM MDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Rio Arriba County, NM, Taos County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 428 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: 598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -153 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1341 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 20, 5:49 PM MDT, 23 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 20, 5:49 PM MDT, 23 hours 26 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 21, 2:51 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Colfax, Curry, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay and 5 more	20 hr
Sep 21, 7:22 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	38 min
Sep 21, 11:35 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	25 min
Sep 21, 11:55 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	20 min
Sep 21, 12:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	37 min
Sep 21, 12:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		35 min
Sep 21, 12:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	14 min
Sep 21, 12:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	23 min
Sep 21, 1:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Quay	99 min
Sep 21, 1:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos	23 min
Sep 21, 2:32 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	28 min
Sep 21, 2:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	47 min
Sep 21, 2:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	52 min
Sep 21, 2:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Harding, Quay	3 hr
Sep 21, 3:00 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Sep 21, 3:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	29 min
Sep 21, 3:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	42 min
Sep 21, 3:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Quay	3 hr
Sep 21, 3:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	28 min
Sep 21, 3:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	66 min
Sep 21, 3:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	33 min
Sep 21, 3:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel	3 hr
Sep 21, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	10 min
Sep 21, 3:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	23 min
Sep 21, 3:56 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	3 hr
Sep 21, 4:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	51 min
Sep 21, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	47 min
Sep 21, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	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.