Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2001, 3:46 PM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 25, 2001, 3:46 PM MDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2001, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Harding County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 4:40 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Mosquero, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Aug 25, 3:20 PM MDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 3:20 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 320 PM MDT SAT AUG 25 2001 ...CORRECTION TO SPECIFY WHICH ZONES FOR SVR TSTORM WATCH... THINGS BECOMING QUITE ACTIVE IN THE EAST AND EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE WELL INTO THE EVENING HOURS AND POSSIBLY THROUGH THE NIGHT. OUTFLOW WILL BOLSTER THE EAST WINDS FOR CENTRAL VALLEYS TONIGHT. WILL GO WITH A WIND ADVISORY RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND CARRIZOZO. THIS WILL BRING A GREAT DEAL OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE WEST HALF OF CWA. WILL HAVE SOME MENTION OF TSTORMS SUNDAY EVEN IN THE FAR WEST. IT MAY TAKE OF COUPLE OF DAYS FOR SUBSIDENCE TO MIX OUT THE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IN THE WEST. AS FOR THE EAST...WILL HAVE LOWER POPS THAN TODAY BECAUSE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING SOUTHWESTWARD OFF OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. LITTLE OR NO CHANGE TO EXTENDED. JWS ABQ BB 066/088 066/091 065 46122 SAF BB 059/085 059/088 057 46222 TCC EB 061/087 064/089 064 46432 .ABQ...WIND ADVISORY RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND WESTERN HALF OF LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS TIL 300 AM. ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR ZONES 4>7-11>13-18-20-21.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 52 min |
| Aug 25, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay | 47 min |
| Aug 25, 5:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay, Union | 31 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.