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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 27, 2000Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2000, 2:53 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 67 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 27, 2000, 2:53 PM MDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2000, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 270 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2000-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 10 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2000-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 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
10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1313 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 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.

914 
WUUS55 KABQ 272053
SVRABQ
NMC007-272200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
253 PM MDT TUE JUN 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 250 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF RATON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER RURAL CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY 
  OVER RURAL EASTERN COLFAX COUNTY 

LAT...LON 3686 10474 3669 10478 3654 10404 3680 10398

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 2:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion54 min
Jun 27, 3:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax62 min
Jun 27, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union61 min
Jun 27, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.