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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 28, 2000Guadalupe County, Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2000, 4:35 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 55 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: Apr 28, 2000, 4:35 PM MDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2000, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

Counties Guadalupe County, NM, Torrance County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 28, 4:45 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Vaughn, NM
Apr 28, 4:55 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Encino, 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 282236
SVRABQ
NMC019-057-282330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
435 PM MDT FRI APR 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN TORRANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
  WEST CENTRAL GUADALUPE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 429 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 28 MILES WEST OF PASTURA...OR ABOUT 20 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF VAUGHN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

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 Apr 28, 3:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 3:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
330 PM MDT FRI APR 28 2000

RIDGE OVERHEAD DRIFTING EASTWARD AS WEST COAST TROUGH APPROACHES. LOW
LEVEL E-SE WINDS ALONG WITH MODELED NEGATIVE LIFTED INDICES AND THETA
E AXIS THROUGH THE EAST...WILL CONTINUE WITH HIGHEST POPS FROM CENTRAL
MOUNTAINS EASTWARD TONIGHT. AT MIDDAY CONVECTION DEVELOPED ALONG THE
DIVIDE IN AREA OF STRONG LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE...CELLS MOVING INTO
MORE MOISTURE RICH AREAS WITH POTENTIAL FOR STRONGER THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT. DRIER OVER FAR WEST...WILL DECIDE AT FORECAST TIME
AS TO BREAK POINT FOR MENTION OF PRECIP...APPEARS TO BE MIDDLE OF
STATE. TROUGH AXIS ALONG WESTERN BORDER BY LATE SATURDAY. SURFACE LO
NEAR NE ALONG WITH SHARPENING GRADIENT SHOULD MAKE FOR MODERATE
SOUTHWEST WINDS ESPECIALLY S AND MUCH OF E ON SATURDAY. SOUTHWEST
WINDS WILL LIKELY BRING FURTHER DRYING TO THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST
AND PUNCH INTO PORTIONS OF THE EAST...BUT POSSIBLY NOT TO THE EASTERN
BORDER...FORECAST WINDS ALOFT TURN FROM SW TO A S WIND OVER THE EAST
ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON...REASONING PART OF WHICH FOLLOWS. AS RIDGE
NOSES INTO THE WESTERN STATES...LO TAKES ON VERY SLOW MOVEMENT ACROSS
THE NORTHERN PART OF THE STATE OVER WEEKEND...MODEL TRENDS SIMILAR. AT
SAME TIME SOME MOISTURE RETURNS TO THE N. IN EXTENDED TROUGH AND
ASSOCIATED WEATHER LINGER THROUGH DAY 4 WITH SHORT WAVE RIDGE BY END
OF PERIOD.

AuBQ BB 052/079 046/072 042 29000
SAF BB 045/072 039/065 038 29101
TCC BB 052/085 047/069 045 29322

.ABQ...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 28, 4:04 PM MDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
404 PM MDT FRI APR 28 2000

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0343 PM    4 E MORIARTY              NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/28/00   TORRANCE                       ONE INCH HAILSTONES ALONG
                                          I-40 2 TO 5 MILES EAST
                                          OF MORIARTY. REPORTED BY
                                          TRUCKER.

MSW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 3:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	54 min
Apr 28, 4:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro, Torrance, Valencia	31 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.