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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 14, 2024Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2024, 3:42 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 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: Jun 14, 2024, 3:42 PM MDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2024, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 63 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 21:45 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
Jun 14, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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-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: 289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -568 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -111 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 Jun 14, 3:16 PM MDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:16 PM MDT, 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 1:26 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
126 PM MDT Fri Jun 14 2024

NMZ232-233-142000-
Eastern San Miguel County-Guadalupe County-
126 PM MDT Fri Jun 14 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTH CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL AND
NORTHEASTERN GUADALUPE COUNTIES THROUGH 200 PM MDT...

At 125 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Pastura, or 12 miles southwest of Santa Rosa, moving northeast at 45
mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and half inch 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...
Santa Rosa, Colonias, Pastura, Puerto De Luna, Newkirk, Santa Rosa
Lake State Park, and Cuervo.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If threatening weather approaches your area, take shelter in a sturdy
building.

Motorists can expect brief but sudden changes in visibility, strong
crosswinds along Interstate 40, and ponding of water on highways as
storms move through the area.

&&

LAT...LON 3466 10482 3478 10503 3536 10478 3501 10412
      3499 10412
TIME...MOT...LOC 1925Z 229DEG 37KT 3481 10483

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.50 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

Shoemake

Local storm report, Jun 14, 1:48 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:19 PM MDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 14, 2:55 PM MDT, 47 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
Jun 14, 1:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	34 min
Jun 14, 1:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	63 min
Jun 14, 2:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	45 min
Jun 14, 2:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Cibola, McKinley	41 min
Jun 14, 2:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Sandoval	50 min
Jun 14, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	45 min
Jun 14, 3:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	44 min
Jun 14, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	65 min
Jun 14, 3:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Valencia	40 min
Jun 14, 4:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba	34 min
Jun 14, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	48 min
Jun 14, 4:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	32 min
Jun 14, 4:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	25 min
Jun 14, 5:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	27 min
Jun 14, 5:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	64 min
Jun 14, 5:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	33 min
Jun 14, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	66 min
Jun 14, 5:35 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Rio Arriba	4 hr
Jun 14, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe	55 min
Jun 14, 5:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	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.