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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 17, 2001Colfax County, Mora County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2001, 4:06 PM MDT for Colfax County, Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 39 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: May 17, 2001, 4:06 PM MDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2001, 4:45 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 17, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3182 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 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 172206
SVRABQ
NMC007-033-172245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
406 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
  NORTHEASTERN MORA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 445 PM MDT

* AT 402 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF FARLEY...OR ABOUT 23
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF DES MOINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF AT LEAST 60 MPH AND LARGE
HAIL. SEEK INDOOR SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS

HEAVY RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE SUDDEN AND DANGEROUS
FLOODING IN ARROYOS...DITCHES AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3615 10477 3612 10445 3623 10447 3623 10403
          3659 10402 3649 10450

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 May 17, 3:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
300 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2001

UPSLOPE GENERATED BY OVERNIGHT OUTFLOW BOUNDARY RESULTED IN EARLY
CONVECTION EAST SLOPES OF SANGRES. FRONT DROPPING IN FROM NORTH THIS
AFTN/EVENING. SHORTWAVE MOVING SEWD ACROSS AREA TNGT LIKELY TO KEEP
CONVECTION GOING TIL LATE EAST WITH SOME SVR PSBL THIS EVENING. WILL
ASSUME THAT CONVECTION WILL AID EAST WINDS BREAKING THRU INTO CNTRL
NM OVERNIGHT INCREASING AVBL MOISTURE. EXTREMELY DRY AIRMASS CNTRL
VLYS AND NW THIS AFTN BUT IF EAST WINDS ARRIVE BEFORE SHORTWAVE
PASSES...COULD STILL TRIGGER ISOLD CONVECTION WEST OF CNTRL MTNS
THIS EVENING. WITH PROSPECT OF MORE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...WILL ALSO
STICK WITH TERRAIN GENERATED ISOLD/SLGT CHC DIURNAL POPS FRIDAY AS
IN CURRENT FCST EVEN THOUGH SHOULD BE SOME LARGER SCALE SUBSIDENCE
AS HEIGHTS RISE BEHIND DEPARTING SHORTWAVE. MORE MOISTURE/CLDS
LIKELY TO RESULT IN LITTLE COOLER TEMPS WEST AND SE. NERN CRNR HAS
ALREADY COOLED CONSIDERABLY TDA BUT EXPECT MINOR ADDITIONAL COOLING
FRI BEHIND FRONT. SAT IS A REAL PROBLEM IN REGARD TO EFFECTS OF
IMPULSES ROTATING OUT AHEAD OF UPR LOW WEST OF BAJA TDA WHICH WILL
BEGIN MOVING INTO NWRN MEXICO BY THEN. LITTLE FAITH IN MODELED
DETAILS BUT STABILITY SHOULD BE DIMINISHING WHILE SHORTWAVE MOVING
ALONG CANADIAN BORDER SHOULD BRING ANOTHER WEAK COLD FRONT SOUTHWARD
DOWN THE PLAINS INTO NERN CRNR NM. WILL INCREASE POPS A BIT
STATEWIDE FOR SAT WITH SOME MINOR ADDITIONAL COOLING WEST.

FOR EXTENDED...NWLY FLOW DEVELOPING SUNDAY BEHIND DEPARTING UPPER
TROUGH AND PERSISTING THROUGH MIDWEEK. SHOULD BE SOME ADDITIONAL
WEAK SURGES DOWN THE PLAINS AT TIMES IN THIS REGIME SO WILL MAINTAIN
LOW POPS EAST SLOPES EASTWARD AND MOSTLY DRY PATTERN WEST OF CENTRAL
MOUNTAINS. TEMPS UP AND DOWN EAST BUT NOT TOO FAR OFF SEASONAL WHILE
WEST SHOULD AVERAGE BIT ABOVE SEASONAL. MJF

ABQ BB 057/085 056/081 053 32111
SAF BB 049/080 047/077 044 32222
TCC BB 055/080 055/080 055 32511

.ABQ...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 17, 12:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
1255 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2001

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

1242 PM    HOLMAN                    NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   MORA                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1252 PM    CAPULIN                   NM   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   UNION                          REPORTED BY CO-OP
                                          OBSERVERS

CA

Local storm report, May 17, 3:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
301 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2001

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

1242 PM    HOLMAN                    NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   MORA                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

1252 PM    CAPULIN                   NM   .75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   UNION                          REPORTED BY CO-OP
                                          OBSERVERS AT VOLCANO
                                          NATIONAL MONUMENT

1445 PM    CAPULIN                   NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   UNION                          REPORTED BY CO-OP
                                          OBSERVERS AT VOLCANO
                                          NATIONAL MONUMENT

CA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 12:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	43 min
May 17, 12:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	62 min
May 17, 1:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	62 min
May 17, 2:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	50 min
May 17, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	60 min
May 17, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	65 min
May 17, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	60 min
May 17, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	60 min
May 17, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding	60 min
May 17, 5:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	60 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.