Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2000, 3:36 PM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2000, 3:36 PM MDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2000, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Torrance County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:53 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Moriarty, 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 nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KABQ 282138 SVRABQ NMC057-282230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 336 PM MDT FRI APR 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL TORRANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 430 PM MDT * AT 331 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORIARTY...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 3 MILES WEST OF CLINES CORNERS AT 430 PM MDT SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF AT LEAST 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK INDOOR SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDI"NG. AVOID WINDOWS! LAT...LON 3503 10609 3488 10605 3490 10550 3504 10552
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro, Torrance, Valencia | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 55 min |
| Apr 28, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 52 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.