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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 30, 2024Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2024, 12:48 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 57 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
May 30, 2024, 12:48 PM MDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2024, 1:45 PM MDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.25 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 18:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 347 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2024-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2024-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 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 May 30, 12:21 PM MDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 12:21 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 12:26 PM MDT, 22 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 30, 12:36 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 6:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQGuadalupe32 min
May 29, 6:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Miguel29 min
May 29, 6:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora, San Miguel64 min
May 29, 6:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe30 min
May 29, 7:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQHarding38 min
May 29, 7:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCurry41 min
May 29, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay65 min
May 29, 8:38 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCurry52 min
May 29, 8:54 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry, Quay3 hr
May 29, 9:22 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCurry38 min
May 29, 9:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry2 hr
May 29, 9:57 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCurry48 min
May 29, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry13 min
May 29, 10:24 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry3 hr
May 29, 10:31 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt44 min
May 29, 10:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay68 min
May 29, 11:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt60 min
May 29, 11:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Miguel26 min
May 29, 11:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel39 min
May 30, 12:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, San Miguel62 min
May 30, 1:28 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, San Miguel, Union62 min
May 30, 2:24 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, San Miguel66 min
May 30, 2:32 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay28 min
May 30, 3:27 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, San Miguel63 min
May 30, 12:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion39 min
May 30, 1:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion66 min
May 30, 2:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion45 min
May 30, 3:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQHarding44 min
May 30, 4:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Union50 min
May 30, 4:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay50 min
May 30, 5:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQRoosevelt60 min
May 30, 5:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay63 min
May 30, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay44 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.