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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 25, 2026Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2026, 7:47 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 28 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
Jun 25, 2026, 7:47 PM MDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2026, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.0 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 01:48 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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 267 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2026-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 00:00Z on 2026-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
4607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 6:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 25, 6:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 25, 7:41 PM MDT, 6 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion46 min
Jun 25, 6:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion52 min
Jun 25, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union43 min
Jun 25, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatABQUnion30 min
Jun 25, 8:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ35 min
Jun 26, 12:29 AM MDTFire Weather WatchABQCatron, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Los Alamos and 11 more12 hr
Jun 26, 12:29 AM MDTRed Flag WarningABQCatron, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Los Alamos and 11 more44 hr
Jun 26, 12:01 PM MDTWind AdvisoryABQCatron, Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan, Taos32 hr
Jun 26, 12:10 PM MDTRed Flag WarningABQCatron, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Los Alamos and 11 more56 hr
Jun 26, 1:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia32 min
Jun 26, 1:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan38 min
Jun 26, 1:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCibola39 min
Jun 26, 1:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMcKinley51 min
Jun 26, 1:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMcKinley, San Juan59 min
Jun 26, 1:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Valencia64 min
Jun 26, 2:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan28 min
Jun 26, 2:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCibola47 min
Jun 26, 2:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia40 min
Jun 26, 2:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia35 min
Jun 26, 3:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Juan42 min
Jun 26, 3:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSandoval29 min
Jun 26, 3:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLos Alamos, Sandoval42 min
Jun 26, 3:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQValencia42 min
Jun 26, 3:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRio Arriba, San Juan50 min
Jun 26, 3:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro, Valencia47 min
Jun 26, 4:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRio Arriba, San Juan43 min
Jun 26, 4:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSandoval41 min
Jun 26, 4:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRio Arriba, Sandoval34 min
Jun 26, 4:13 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQCibola, Valencia62 min
Jun 26, 4:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Juan100 min
Jun 26, 4:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSanta Fe40 min
Jun 26, 4:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion60 min
Jun 26, 5:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion14 min
Jun 26, 5:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSandoval105 min
Jun 26, 5:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion25 min
Jun 26, 5:24 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQRio Arriba, Sandoval2 hr
Jun 26, 5:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax24 min
Jun 26, 5:56 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQTaos112 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.