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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 274, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 27, 2026Harding County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2026, 10:00 PM MDT for Harding County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 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 27, 2026, 10:00 PM MDT (04:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2026, 10:30 PM MDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Harding County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 377 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2026-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1173 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2026-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2053 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 6:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSandoval35 min
Aug 27, 6:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCurry33 min
Aug 27, 7:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQRoosevelt31 min
Aug 27, 8:51 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQLincoln3 hr
Aug 27, 9:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQHarding24 min
Aug 27, 9:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion34 min
Aug 27, 10:14 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQHarding, Union2 hr
Aug 27, 11:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQHarding36 min
Aug 27, 11:46 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQHarding, Quay, Union119 min
Aug 28, 1:32 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQRio Arriba, Taos3 hr
Aug 28, 1:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSandoval3 hr
Aug 28, 1:55 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQSan Miguel3 hr
Aug 28, 2:10 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQLincoln85 min
Aug 28, 2:55 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSocorro3 hr
Aug 28, 3:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax27 min
Aug 28, 3:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax36 min
Aug 28, 5:25 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQSocorro3 hr

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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.