Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 23, 2000, 10:55 AM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 23, 2000, 10:55 AM MDT (16:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2000, 12:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 775 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KABQ 231657 SVRABQ NMC009-037-231800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1055 AM MDT MON OCT 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO EAST CENTRAL QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL NOON MDT * AT 1050 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRADY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER GRADY AT 1100 AM MDT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROADVIEW AT 1110 AM MDT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLVIEW AT 1125 AM MDT SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF AT LEAST 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK INDOOR SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS! HEAVY RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE SUDDEN AND DANGEROUS FLOODING IN ARROYOS...DIT`CHES AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS. LAT...LON 3478 10350 3465 10334 3501 10282 3520 10305
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 6:36 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 54 min |
| Oct 23, 7:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel | 65 min |
| Oct 23, 7:51 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel | 114 min |
| Oct 23, 8:25 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay, San Miguel | 50 min |
| Oct 23, 11:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 64 min |
| Oct 23, 12:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 61 min |
| Oct 23, 12:18 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | San Juan | 27 min |
| Oct 23, 12:44 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | San Juan | 31 min |
| Oct 23, 1:14 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Oct 23, 1:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Juan | 52 min |
| Oct 23, 3:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.