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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2024, 3:40 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 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 31, 2024, 3:40 PM MDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2024, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Guadalupe County, NM, San Miguel County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 31, 3:00 PM MDT, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:00 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 31, 1:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 31, 2:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
228 PM MDT Fri May 31 2024
NMZ229-312100-
Northeast Highlands-
228 PM MDT Fri May 31 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WEST CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY
THROUGH 300 PM MDT...
At 228 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
Romeroville, or near Las Vegas, moving southeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Las Vegas, Romeroville, Tecolote, Los Montoyas, Chapelle, and San
Agustin.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 25 south of Las Vegas
State Road 104 near Mile Marker 1.
State Road 283 between Mile Markers 1 and 2.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If threatening weather approaches your area, take shelter in a sturdy
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3541 10535 3561 10524 3554 10489 3527 10505
TIME...MOT...LOC 2028Z 293DEG 14KT 3550 10520
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH
CASpecial weather statement, May 31, 3:16 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
316 PM MDT Fri May 31 2024
NMZ227-228-312145-
Far Northeast Highlands-Johnson and Bartlett Mesas Including Raton
Pass-
316 PM MDT Fri May 31 2024
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY THROUGH
345 PM MDT...
At 316 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Maxwell, or 15 miles north of Springer, moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Maxwell.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If threatening weather approaches your area, take shelter in a sturdy
building.
Accumulations of small hail on roads can create very slick and
hazardous driving conditions.
&&
LAT...LON 3648 10467 3665 10471 3673 10443 3648 10440
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 255DEG 13KT 3659 10457
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH
CAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 12:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 3 hr |
| May 31, 1:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Miguel | 33 min |
| May 31, 2:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Miguel | 32 min |
| May 31, 2:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 23 min |
| May 31, 2:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 66 min |
| May 31, 3:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 29 min |
| May 31, 3:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Union | 3 hr |
| May 31, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 28 min |
| May 31, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 45 min |
| May 31, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 63 min |
| May 31, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 43 min |
| May 31, 4:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Miguel | 27 min |
| May 31, 4:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 23 min |
| May 31, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 45 min |
| May 31, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay, San Miguel | 54 min |
| May 31, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay | 63 min |
| May 31, 5:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 65 min |
| May 31, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 59 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.