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Special Weather Statement, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 30, 2026Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this special weather statement at Jul 30, 2026, 9:21 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 30, 2026, 9:21 PM MDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2026, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 50

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 30, 5:21 PM MDT, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 5:21 PM MDT, 4 hours before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 5:11 PM MDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 5:19 PM MDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 5:46 PM MDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 30, 6:07 PM MDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 30, 9:21 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 6:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	34 min
Jul 30, 6:58 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 30, 7:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro	3 hr
Jul 30, 9:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	32 min
Jul 31, 3:36 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 31, 12:13 PM MDT	Heat Advisory	ABQ	Catron, Cibola, McKinley, San Juan	32 hr
Jul 31, 12:13 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	ABQ	Bernalillo, Cibola, Sandoval, Torrance, Valencia	15 hr
Jul 31, 12:26 PM MDT	Flood Watch	ABQ	Lincoln	31 hr
Jul 31, 1:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	32 min
Jul 31, 2:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 31, 2:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Santa Fe	32 min
Jul 31, 2:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	26 min
Jul 31, 2:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	24 min
Jul 31, 2:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	34 min
Jul 31, 3:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	26 min
Jul 31, 3:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	23 min
Jul 31, 3:12 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	33 min
Jul 31, 3:27 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Jul 31, 3:30 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	San Miguel	30 min
Jul 31, 3:34 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Catron	3 hr
Jul 31, 3:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	33 min
Jul 31, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	46 min
Jul 31, 3:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	42 min
Jul 31, 3:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	37 min
Jul 31, 3:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Union	47 min
Jul 31, 4:03 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Torrance	27 min
Jul 31, 4:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	34 min
Jul 31, 4:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	24 min
Jul 31, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	47 min
Jul 31, 4:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Union	23 min
Jul 31, 4:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	31 min
Jul 31, 4:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Mora	28 min
Jul 31, 4:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 31, 5:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Union	52 min
Jul 31, 5:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Guadalupe	34 min
Jul 31, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Quay	44 min
Jul 31, 5:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	13 min
Jul 31, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ABQ	Curry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt	46 min
Jul 31, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	37 min
Jul 31, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Quay, Roosevelt	46 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.