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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 17, 2000Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2000, 1:16 AM MDT for Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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 17, 2000, 1:16 AM MDT (07:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2000, 2:00 AM MDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Curry County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 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.

220 
WUUS55 KABQ 170717
SVRABQ
NMC009-041-170800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
116 AM MDT SAT JUN 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO       
  NORTHEASTERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 200 AM MDT

* AT 115 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORTALES...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE TEXICO

PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL AND 
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3411 10343 3400 10326 3452 10270 3469 10296

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 2:26 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, Roosevelt49 min
Jun 17, 3:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.