Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2000, 7:15 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 6, 2000, 7:15 PM MDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2000, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Curry County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
272 WUUS55 KABQ 070115 SVRABQ NMC009-070200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 715 PM MDT TUE JUN 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 712 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLVIEW...OR ABOUT 34 MILES NORTH OF CLOVIS...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 3 MILES WEST OF BELLVIEW...3 MILES EAST OF BROADVIEW AT 755 PM MDT SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF AT LEAST 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. SEEK INDOOR SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS LAT...LON 3490 10303 3492 10327 3464 10330 3465 10304
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 3:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 3:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 300 PM MDT TUE JUN 6 2000 UPPER RIDGE TO GRADUALLY SHIFT EASTWARD IN RESPONSE TO UPPER TROUGH TO EXTEND N-S THROUGH ARIZONA AND THE GREAT BASIN BY THURSDAY. EXPECT INCREASING SWLY WINDS ALOFT WILL LEAD TO DRYING. NGM INCREASES MOISTURE OVER STATE IN 48 HOURS BUT NO SURFACE SUPPORT WITH LEE TROUGHING THROUGH THE PD. EVEN IF ANY MOISTURE DOES BECOME DRAWN UP...SHOULD NOT BE AROUND LONG. THEREFORE TREND OF DECREASING THUNDERSTORM FREQUENCY FROM WEST TO EAST WILL BE CONTINUED. WILL LIKELY BE BREEZY IN THE AFTERNOONS OVER THE NORTH BY THURSDAY. FEW CHANGES TO EXTENDED. ABQ BB 061/093 063/093 063 48111 SAF BB 052/087 055/087 055 48111 TCC BB 060/089 062/091 062 481-1 .ABQ...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 6:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 7:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay, San Miguel | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay, San Miguel | 44 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.