Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 22, 2001San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2001, 8:03 PM MDT for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2001, 8:03 PM MDT (02:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2001, 8:45 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 284 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: 207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3270 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 22, 2:40 PM MDT, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:40 PM MDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
240 PM MDT SUN JUL 22 2001

12Z UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWS DEFORMED 500MB UPPER HIGH CENTER
STRETCHED FROM NE OKLAHOMA TO NEAR ABILENE, TX. MOISTURE PLUME
ORIENTED FROM SW TO NE ACROSS CENTRAL NM. FAR NW IS RELATIVELY DRY
AND FAR SE IS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE UPPER HIGH AND MID LEVEL
WARMING. NOT MUCH CHANGE ENSTORE FOR THE NEXT 36-48 HOURS.
HOWEVER...BY LATE TUESDAY A COLD FRONT AND ASSOCIATED UPSLOPE IS
FORECAST TO PUSH INTO THE NE. AVN/ETA BOTH PICK UP ON THIS AND
BULLSEYE SE CO AND NE NM WITH PRECIP. WILL BREAK OUT THE NE DURING
THE TUESDAY NIGHT PERIOD IN THE SFP...BUT WILL KEEP CONVECTION
SCATTERED AT THIS TIME.

TEMPERATURES FOR THE NEXT 36-48 HOURS WILL CONTINUE CURRENT TRENDS.
IN THE WEST...LOWS HAVE BEEN ABOVE TO WELL ABOVE GUIDANCE THE LAST
COUPLE OF MORNINGS DUE TO CLOUD COVER ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOISTURE
PLUME. WITHOUT THE CLOUD COVER...LOWS WOULD HAVE BEEN BELOW GUIDANCE
BASED ON LOW DEW POINT TEMPS AND ASSUMING IDEAL RADIATIONAL COOLING.
WILL CONTINUE THIS TREND AND GO ABOVE GUIDANCE MINS IN THE WEST BASED
ON FORECAST OF MOISTURE PLUME NOT MOVING MUCH. GUIDANCE TEMPS APPEAR
REASONABLE ELSEWHERE.

THE PREVIOUS EXTENDED FORECAST LOOKS GOOD AND WILL MAKE NO CHANGES.
IF THE ECMWF/MRF VERIFY...THEN BY FRIDAY WE'LL BE DEEP INTO THE
EASTERLIES AND HAVE A BETTER CHANCE AT GETTING SOME WETTING RAINS
FROM THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN WEST. CA

ABQ BB 067/093 067/094 068 50212
SAF BB 060/088 060/089 059 50212
TCC BB 070/098 070/099 071 50211

.ABQ...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 4:23 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
423 PM MDT SUN JUL 22 2001

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

0329 PM    ALTO                      NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/22/01   LINCOLN                        HAIL UP TO 6 INCHES DEEP.
                                          ALSO ARROYO FLOODING.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.