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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 17, 2025Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2025, 7:59 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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 17, 2025, 7:59 PM MDT (01:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2025, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 7:55 PM MDT, 4 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 17, 7:55 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	50 min
Jun 17, 9:06 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	24 min
Jun 18, 1:27 PM MDT	Heat Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, San Juan, Torrance and 1 more	30 hr
Jun 18, 1:39 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan	13 hr

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.