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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 6, 2025Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2025, 1:40 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 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: May 6, 2025, 1:40 PM MDT (19:40 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2025, 2:30 PM MDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Chaves County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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.

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 May 5, 3:30 PM MDT, 22 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 3:30 PM MDT, 22 hours 10 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
May 5, 7:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Bernalillo	20 min
May 5, 7:42 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	San Miguel	6 hr
May 6, 2:57 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	3 hr
May 6, 2:57 AM MDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	11 hr
May 6, 3:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Quay	26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2025 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2025

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.