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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Albuquerque, NM

October 19, 2024Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 19, 2024, 1:40 PM MDT for Lincoln 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: Oct 19, 2024, 1:40 PM MDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: Oct 19, 2024, 2:00 PM MDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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 Oct 19, 11:39 AM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 11:39 AM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 19, 10:16 AM MDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 19, 11:28 AM MDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 19, 12:31 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 19, 12:47 PM MDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 19, 12:59 PM MDT, 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Oct 19, 1:12 PM MDT, 28 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 18, 6:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	De Baca	26 min
Oct 18, 6:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	22 min
Oct 18, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	49 min
Oct 18, 6:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	31 min
Oct 18, 7:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora, San Miguel	24 min
Oct 18, 11:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	23 min
Oct 18, 11:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	34 min
Oct 18, 11:29 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	2 hr
Oct 19, 12:28 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe, Torrance	4 hr
Oct 19, 1:59 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	6 hr
Oct 19, 2:42 AM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ABQ	Colfax, Taos	25 hr
Oct 19, 2:56 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora	5 hr
Oct 19, 9:37 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Valencia	38 min
Oct 19, 10:16 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	44 min
Oct 19, 11:28 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	47 min
Oct 19, 12:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	44 min
Oct 19, 12:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	43 min
Oct 19, 12:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	46 min
Oct 19, 1:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	33 min
Oct 19, 1:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		37 min
Oct 19, 2:10 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	3 hr
Oct 19, 2:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	San Miguel, Torrance	3 hr
Oct 19, 2:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	2 hr
Oct 19, 2:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		42 min
Oct 19, 2:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	36 min
Oct 19, 2:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	49 min
Oct 19, 3:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		39 min
Oct 19, 3:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance	43 min
Oct 19, 3:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		38 min
Oct 19, 3:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	35 min
Oct 19, 3:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	47 min
Oct 19, 3:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	42 min
Oct 19, 3:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	24 min
Oct 19, 3:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay	37 min
Oct 19, 4:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	31 min
Oct 19, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	42 min
Oct 19, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel	12 min
Oct 19, 4:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	51 min
Oct 19, 4:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	De Baca	29 min
Oct 19, 5:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	40 min
Oct 19, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	44 min
Oct 19, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	51 min
Oct 19, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	50 min
Oct 19, 5:36 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Lincoln	3 hr
Oct 19, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves, Lincoln	48 min
Oct 19, 5:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Socorro	38 min
Oct 19, 5:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay	31 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.