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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 28, 2025Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2025, 2:54 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 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 28, 2025, 2:54 PM MDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2025, 4:00 PM MDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 28, 1:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 28, 12:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 12:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 2:01 PM MDT, 53 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
201 PM MDT Wed May 28 2025

NMZ230-282030-
Union County NM-
201 PM MDT Wed May 28 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT EASTERN UNION COUNTY UNTIL 230
PM MDT...

At 201 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 14
miles northeast of Seneca, or 26 miles north of Clayton, moving east
at 25 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and nickel size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
  Moses.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
stations and available television stations for additional
information and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.

&&

LAT...LON 3672 10312 3691 10307 3690 10300 3670 10300
TIME...MOT...LOC 2001Z 278DEG 22KT 3680 10300

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

Shoemake

Local storm report, May 28, 2:41 PM MDT, 13 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report...Corrected
National Weather Service Albuquerque NM
241 PM MDT Wed May 28 2025

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0520 PM     Tornado          3 SSW Floyd             34.19N 103.60W
05/25/2025                   Roosevelt          NM   NWS Storm Survey

            Overall rating is EF-1 with 90 mph
            windspeeds based on what damage indicators
            there were from power pole damage as no
            structures were impacted. Tornado tracked
            from 3mi SSW of Floyd to 2mi ENE of Floyd
            from 520PM to 537PM MDT. Peak intensity of
            the tornado moved over NM road 267 snapping
            15-20 power poles. This LSR corrects the
            previous tornado LSR on May 25.

&&

SO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 7:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		17 min
May 27, 7:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	20 min
May 27, 7:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Chaves	24 min
May 28, 2:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	48 min
May 28, 3:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	47 min
May 28, 3:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	32 min
May 28, 4:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	37 min
May 28, 4:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	17 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.