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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 17, 2001Harding County, San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2001, 6:40 PM MDT for Harding County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 2001, 6:40 PM MDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2001, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Harding County, NM, San Miguel County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 17, 7:11 PM MDT	Hail 1	Roy, 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
May 17, 1:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 1564 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 180041
SVRABQ
NMC021-047-180145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HARDING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
  NORTHEASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 633 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOLANO...OR ABOUT 20     
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOSQUERO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE    
  STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING LARGE HAIL.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOLANO AT 720 PM MDT
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOSQUERO AT 725 PM MDT

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 3577 10427 3561 10441 3549 10416 3608 10337
          3609 10386

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, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 17, 3:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 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, 5 hours 45 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, 3 hours 39 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

Local storm report, May 17, 5:55 PM MDT, 45 minutes before

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

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

0355 PM    30 N CLAYTON              NM   .88 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   UNION                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC

0525 PM    6 S ABBOTT                NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC ON
                                          COLFAX/HARDING COUNTY LINE

0525 PM    10 N MILLS                NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/17/01   HARDING                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC ON
                                          COLFAX/HARDING COUNTY LINE

CSM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	61 min
May 17, 6:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	60 min
May 17, 6:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding	67 min
May 17, 7:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	29 min
May 17, 7:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	54 min
May 17, 7:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	58 min
May 17, 8:19 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding	26 min
May 17, 8:19 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding	56 min
May 17, 8:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay, Union	67 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.