Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms continued to impact NM as a persistent upper-level low pressure system drifted over the region. Just enough instability and shear below the larger scale rotation aloft allowed a storm near Belen to produce a brief funnel cloud over the west mesa.
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The episode as NWS ABQ wrote it up.
Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms continued to impact NM as a persistent upper-level low pressure system drifted over the region. Just enough instability and shear below the larger scale rotation aloft allowed a storm near Belen to produce a brief funnel cloud over the west mesa.
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 53 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:17 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A social media post on Facebook showed a well-defined funnel cloud over the west mesa near Belen, NM on October 8, 2022. Time and location are estimated from the Facebook post.
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