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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 30, 2001Harding County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2001, 3:49 PM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 41 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 30, 2001, 3:49 PM MDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2001, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Harding 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 30, 2:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -411 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2031 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 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

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

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 302149
SVRABQ
NMC021-302230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
349 PM MDT WED MAY 30 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 348 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL HARDING COUNTY...ABOUT 14 MILES
  EAST OF MOSQUERO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM
  HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH IN
  DIAMETER. 

LAT...LON 3600 10364 3581 10392 3549 10361 3569 10334

KJ

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 30, 3:25 PM MDT, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 30, 3:25 PM MDT, 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
325 PM MDT WED MAY 30 2001

ONGOING SVR WEATHER OVER ERN ZONES PRECLUDES A LENGTHY
DISCUSSION.  OUTFLOW FROM CONVECTION OVER THE EAST COUPLED WITH
A COOL FRONT PROGGED TO PUSH THRU THE ERN PLAINS WILL BRING THE
POSSIBILITY OF LOCAL CANYON WINDS INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY LATER
THIS EVENING.  UPSLOPE CONDITIONS THU BRING ANOTHER CHC OF CONVCTN
CNTRL MTNS AND E AND ALSO ALONG THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE.  UPR RDG
PRESENTLY OVER THE W COAST WL SHIFT E TO AZ/NM BORDER FRI.
THIS SHUD CAP MOST CNVCTN W.  HEIGHTS A LTL LOWER OVR THE E UNDER
NW FLO AND CONT TO MENTION OF POPS E.  UPR TROF MOVES ONSHORE AND
GRADUALLY WEARS DOWN THE RDG.  ALSO S/WV RIDG ACRS THE NRN ROCKIES
WILL RESULT IN A MORE ZNL PATTERN FOR SUN AND MON WITH MIXG AFTN
BREEZES. 44

ABQ UU 057/087 057/089 057 44000
SAF UU 049/081 050/082 048 44-11
TCC BB 057/078 055/083 058 44312

.ABQ...SEVERE TSTORM WATCH NE AND EAST CENTRAL NM TIL 7 PM MDT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 30, 3:36 PM MDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
336 PM MDT WED MAY 30 2001

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

0331 PM    10 E MOSQUERO             NM   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/30/01   HARDING                        REPORTED AT THE MITCHELL
                                          RANCH AT HWY 102 AND
                                          39REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

KMV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 1:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	51 min
May 30, 1:47 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding	43 min
May 30, 2:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	51 min
May 30, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	45 min
May 30, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	60 min
May 30, 3:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding	30 min
May 30, 4:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	67 min
May 30, 4:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	39 min
May 30, 4:48 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Quay	42 min
May 30, 5:01 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	44 min
May 30, 5:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	61 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.