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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2025, 3:41 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 19 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 29, 2025, 3:41 PM MDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2025, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 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 21:41 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 nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 264 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1395 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, 5:44 PM MDT, 21 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 5:44 PM MDT, 21 hours 57 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 27 min |
| May 29, 2:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Torrance | 23 min |
| May 29, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Lincoln, Torrance | 32 min |
| May 29, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Mora | 59 min |
| May 29, 4:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 13 min |
| May 29, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora | 54 min |
Nearby
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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.