Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 3:19 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2000, 3:19 PM MDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Quay County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:50 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Tucumcari Arpt, NM | |
| May 25, 3:52 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Tucumcari, NM |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 473 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -338 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
397 WUUS55 KABQ 252119 SVRABQ NMC037-252200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 319 PM MDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL QUAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 400 PM MDT * AT 314 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TUCUMCARI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER TUCUMCARI AT 400 PM MDT SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF AT LEAST 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK INDOOR SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 49 min |
| May 25, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 50 min |
| May 25, 4:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 65 min |
| May 25, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca | 43 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.