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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 2, 1995Harding County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 2:20 PM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1995, 2:20 PM MDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1995, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Harding County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 352 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 12:00Z on 1995-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 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
352 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-189 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 022022 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC021-022100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
220 PM MDT FRI JUN 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE......
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...EASTERN HARDING COUNTY
 
AT 216 PM MDT A CHANNEL 4 WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZED
HAIL 7 MILES EAST OF MOSQUERO. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
THIS LARGE HAIL IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
PASS ACROSS HIGHWAY 102 NEAR BUEYEROS WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
RHD
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 2:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax54 min
Jun 2, 3:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding43 min
Jun 2, 5:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding92 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.