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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 7, 2026Harding County, Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2026, 7:25 PM MDT for Harding County, Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 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
Aug 7, 2026, 7:25 PM MDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2026, 7:56 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
1.5 in
Wind
70.0 mph

Counties Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2026-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1983 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2026-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
1983 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 6:01 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQLincoln3 hr
Aug 7, 6:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQHarding34 min
Aug 7, 6:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln47 min
Aug 7, 6:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ24 min
Aug 7, 6:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay34 min
Aug 7, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay45 min
Aug 7, 7:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQLincoln3 hr
Aug 7, 7:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, San Miguel17 min
Aug 7, 7:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQGuadalupe35 min
Aug 7, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel32 min
Aug 7, 8:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatABQCurry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt47 min
Aug 7, 9:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCurry, De Baca, Roosevelt27 min
Aug 8, 12:36 PM MDTHeat AdvisoryABQMcKinley, San Juan31 hr

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.