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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 474, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 17, 2025Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 2025, 5:09 PM MDT for Union 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: Sep 17, 2025, 5:09 PM MDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2025, 5:35 PM MDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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
Sep 17, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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: 183 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 Sep 17, 1:05 PM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 1:05 PM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 17, 2:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 17, 3:57 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 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
Sep 17, 11:11 AM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Lincoln	31 hr
Sep 17, 2:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	52 min
Sep 17, 3:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	43 min
Sep 17, 3:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	47 min
Sep 17, 3:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	48 min
Sep 17, 4:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	51 min
Sep 17, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	47 min
Sep 17, 4:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	43 min
Sep 17, 4:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Colfax	48 min
Sep 17, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	28 min
Sep 17, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Union	28 min
Sep 17, 5:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	40 min
Sep 17, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	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.