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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 17, 2000Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2000, 6:30 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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: Jul 17, 2000, 6:30 PM MDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2000, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 769 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 180035
SVRABQ
NMC059-180130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
630 PM MDT MON JUL 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 730 PM MDT

* AT 626 MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE TEXAS LINE
  NORTHEAST OF SENECA SOUTHWEST TO NEAR PASAMONTE. ANOTHER SEVERE
  STORM WAS LOCATED IN ADVANCE OF THIS LINE...ABOUT 10 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SEDAN.  MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT
  NEAR 15 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...
  OVER CLAYTON AT 635 PM MDT AND THROUGH SEDAN BETWEEN 645 PM AND
  700 PM MDT.

AT 555 PM...THE PUBLIC REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL THAT FELL FOR 
ABOUT TEN MINUTES NEAR SENECA.

THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING EXTREMELY LARGE HAIL WHICH
CAN CAUSE INJURY AND PROPERTY DAMAGE. TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY
BUILDING.

LAT...LON 3682 10301 3612 10371 3611 10336 3590 10304
          3642 10305

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 Jul 17, 3:27 PM MDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 3:27 PM MDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
327 PM MDT MON JUL 17 2000

MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH BUILDING 500 MB RIDGE OVER THE
FOUR CORNERS AREA DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS. 850-500 MB THICKNESS
VALUES ARE LIKELY TO INCREASE...SUGGESTING A WARMING TREND WITH LOWER
CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION. THE PRESENCE OF RESIDUAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
WOULD SUGGEST AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING
THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE HIGHER TERRAIN.

CURRENT THINKING IS THAT RIDGING WILL BE THE PREDOMINANT FEATURE
THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THE ETA AND AVN ARE MOST AGGRESSIVE WITH
THICKNESS INCREASE. IT APPEARS THAT A COMPROMISE BETWEEN NGM AND
ETA/AVN WOULD BE THE REASONABLE SOLUTION. ALSO...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION
MENTION THAT MRF BUILDS A MASSIVE RIDGE WEST OF NM...SUGGESTING
UNSEASONABLY WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS. WEIGHING THE IDEA THAT THE
RIDGE WILL NOT BE AS STRONG OR WELL DEFINED...AND THE FACT THAT
SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS IN PLACE...AND HEATING WILL BE
EFFECTIVE...SO WILL CONTINUE TREND OF PARTLY CLOUDY SLIGHT CHANCE OF
AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EXTENDED. KMV

ABQ BB 064/095 064/095 06.4 33222
SAF BB 059/089 057/090 059 33322
TCC BB 068/098 069/098 068 33211

.ABQ...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 17, 1:39 PM MDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
139 PM MDT MON JUL 17 2000

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

0130 PM    MORA                      NM   .88 INCH HAIL
07/17/00   MORA                           Dime to Nickel sized hail
                                          covered the ground.

KMV

Local storm report, Jul 17, 3:13 PM MDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
313 PM MDT MON JUL 17 2000

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

0310 PM    RATON                     NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/17/00   COLFAX                         1.00 - 1.25 INCH HAIL
                                          REPORT BY PUBLIC IN RATON

KMV|

Local storm report, Jul 17, 3:23 PM MDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
323 PM MDT MON JUL 17 2000

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

0315 PM    SPRINGER                  NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/17/00   COLFAX                         0.88-1.00 INCH HAIL
                                          REPORTED BY PD IN
                                          SPRINGER

KMV

Local storm report, Jul 17, 6:19 PM MDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
619 PM MDT MON JUL 17 2000

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

0540 PM    5 N GLENRIO               NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/17/00   QUAY                           QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND .80
                                          INCHES RAINFALL IN 30
                                          MINUTES REPORTED BY
                                          PUBLIC 1/4 MILE WEST
                                          OF TX BORDER AND 5 MILES
                                          NORTH OF INTERSTATE
                                          40.

0555 PM    21 NNE CLAYTON            NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/17/00   UNION                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL FELL
                                          FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES AS
                                          REPOReTED BY PUBLIC IN
                                          MOSES.

CSM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	30 min
Jul 18, 2:03 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval	117 min
Jul 18, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	40 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.