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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 30, 2025Santa Fe County, Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2025, 12:34 PM MDT for Santa Fe County, Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 26 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 30, 2025, 12:34 PM MDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2025, 1:00 PM MDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 364 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: 427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 30, 5:23 AM MDT, 7 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 5:23 AM MDT, 7 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 12:17 PM MDT, 17 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 29, 7:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	42 min
Jun 29, 8:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	30 min
Jun 29, 8:21 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry	69 min
Jun 29, 8:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry	2 hr
Jun 29, 8:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Curry	27 min
Jun 29, 9:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Roosevelt	27 min
Jun 29, 10:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Roosevelt	2 hr
Jun 30, 11:29 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	31 min
Jun 30, 12:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe	29 min
Jun 30, 12:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Taos	28 min
Jun 30, 12:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe	26 min
Jun 30, 12:23 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	2 hr
Jun 30, 1:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe, Torrance	9 min
Jun 30, 2:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		34 min
Jun 30, 2:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		32 min
Jun 30, 3:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	55 min
Jun 30, 3:53 PM MDT	Dust Storm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	67 min
Jun 30, 4:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	4 hr
Jun 30, 4:17 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	118 min
Jun 30, 4:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Torrance	116 min
Jun 30, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	27 min
Jun 30, 4:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Socorro	111 min
Jun 30, 5:02 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Mora	3 hr
Jun 30, 5:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	52 min
Jun 30, 5:19 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Cibola	116 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.