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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 348, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 18, 2025Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2025, 6:02 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 21 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
Jul 18, 2025, 6:02 PM MDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2025, 6:23 PM MDT
In force
21 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 00:03 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 306 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1266 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2025-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2162 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 6:00 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSanta Fe2 hr
Jul 18, 6:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion26 min
Jul 18, 6:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax43 min
Jul 18, 6:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion10 min
Jul 18, 6:45 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQColfax3 hr
Jul 19, 1:52 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLos Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval3 hr
Jul 19, 5:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQBernalillo42 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.