Right after sitting down & loading up radar, it looks like a severe thunderstorm was located southwest of Albuquerque. ProbSevere highlighted this cell with ProbWind values of 75% & ProbHail values of 80%. This meshes well with "conventional" tools used to identify severe convection. This storm has 60 dBZ at the -20C level, 50dBZ echoes up to 36000 ft well exceeding the RAP forecast threshold for severe hail (~18000 ft), & a three-body scatter spike evident on 0.5 CC. Additionally MRMS MESH values are between 1.0-1.5" indicating severe hail is likely.
Other nearby storms had ProbSevere values from 30-60% but do not exhibit the conventional signatures I would look for in issuing a warning. Have not had time to perform a standard analysis of the near-storm environment so uncertain if they will continue to intensify, but would likely hold off on issuing on those.
I am viewing the ProbSevere output through the mouse-over sample tool in AWIPS2 but unfortunately the screen truncates the output in a 4 panel display making it hard to read the values for each parameter with all 3 fields loaded (see image below).
UPDATE (2020Z): A 68 mph wind gust was measured with this storm at 1845Z, 3 miles east of Grants, NM
Peter Sunday


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