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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 15, 2025Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2025, 1:43 PM MDT for Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 35 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 15, 2025, 1:43 PM MDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2025, 2:18 PM MDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chaves County, NM, Lincoln County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -396 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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 Jun 15, 11:43 AM MDT, 2 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 11:43 AM MDT, 2 hours before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:36 PM MDT, 7 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
136 PM MDT Sun Jun 15 2025

NMZ239-240-152000-
Southwest Chaves County NM-Eastern Lincoln County NM-
136 PM MDT Sun Jun 15 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN AND WEST
CENTRAL CHAVES COUNTIES UNTIL 2 PM MDT...

At 136 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 20
miles southeast of Tinnie, or 37 miles southwest of Roswell, moving
east at 20 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 damage to outdoor objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
  Mainly rural areas of Southeastern Lincoln and West Central Chaves
  Counties.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening
weather conditions.

&&

LAT...LON 3313 10526 3321 10528 3332 10495 3322 10490
      3314 10491 3299 10485 3296 10522
TIME...MOT...LOC 1936Z 251DEG 15KT 3311 10508

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

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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, 6:01 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	44 min
Jun 14, 6:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	33 min
Jun 14, 7:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	30 min
Jun 15, 1:44 AM MDT	Heat Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Sandoval, Socorro and 2 more	41 hr
Jun 15, 1:36 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		24 min
Jun 15, 2:45 PM MDT	Dust Storm Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	2 hr
Jun 15, 3:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	34 min
Jun 15, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	33 min
Jun 15, 3:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	43 min
Jun 15, 3:24 PM MDT	Dust Storm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	36 min
Jun 15, 3:26 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan, Socorro	22 hr
Jun 15, 3:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Chaves	59 min
Jun 15, 3:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln, Torrance	44 min
Jun 15, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	47 min
Jun 15, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro	48 min
Jun 15, 4:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	63 min
Jun 15, 4:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	29 min
Jun 15, 4:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	46 min
Jun 15, 4:55 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Mora	2 hr
Jun 15, 5:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		30 min
Jun 15, 5:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt	39 min
Jun 15, 5:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance	38 min
Jun 15, 5:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	51 min
Jun 15, 5:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	49 min
Jun 15, 5:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Roosevelt	46 min
Jun 15, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	48 min
Jun 15, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, Roosevelt	28 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.