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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 21, 2001San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 5:55 PM MDT for 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: Jun 21, 2001, 5:55 PM MDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 21, 6:45 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Mineral Hill, 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 nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -394 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 212358
SVRABQ
NMC047-220100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
555 PM MDT THU JUN 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 700 PM MDT

* AT 554 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAPELLO...OR ABOUT 12
  MILES EAST OF MORA...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE STORRIE LAKE
   STATE PARK...INTERSTATE 25 NEAR LAS VEGAS AND THE CITY OF LAS 
   VEGAS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUAS STORM. PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3534 10543 3576 10564 3587 10536 3580 10506
          3568 10468 3541 10489

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 Jun 21, 3:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 3:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
345 MDT THU JUN 21 2001

EXCEPT FOR THE POSITION OF UPPER LEVEL HIGH PRESSURE AND THE
RESULTANT STEERING FLOW TO MOVE THUNDERSTORMS OFF THE
MOUNTAINS...SYNOPTIC SCALE METEOROLOGY BECOMING LESS AND LESS OF A
FACTOR IN THE DAILY FORECASTS. SURFACE DEWPOINTS HAVE INCREASED
ENOUGH ACROSS THE AREA SUCH THAT DIURNAL OROGRAPHIC THUNDERSTORMS
EXPECTED UNTIL A FEATURE ARRIVES TO SCOUR OUT THE LOWER LEVEL
MOISTURE. NO SUCH FEATURE FORESEEN IN THIS FORECAST. WITH THAT IN
MIND...EXPECT A GENERAL SOUTHERLY MOVEMENT OF MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS
NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS 500 MB HIGH CENTER SETS UP OVER EASTERN AZ. BIT
OF A LEE SURFACE TROUGH EXPECTED TO DEVELOP FRIDAY-SATURDAY DUE TO W
TO NW FLOW ALOFT OVER COLORADO. THIS SHOULD BRING WARMING TO THE
EAST...BUT MOISTURE REMAINING HIGH WITH SOUTHERLY WIND COMPONENT.
THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL IN THE FAR NW PORTION OF THE AREA WILL DEPEND
ON THE STRENGTH OF ANY WESTWARD PUSH OF MOISTURE CAUSED BY NOCTURNAL
THUNDERSTORMS FURTHER EAST. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO
GENERALLY INCREASE INTO THE WEEKEND.

THE BIG QUESTION IN THE NEAR TERM IS WHETHER STORMS STRENGTHENING
OVER THE SANGRE DE CRISTOS AT THIS WRITING WILL PROPAGATE SOUTH TO
ROSWELL OVERNIGHT...PER THE MESO-ETA. IF THIS HAPPENS...MOISTURE MAY
PUSH FAR ENOUGH WEST FOR BETTER PRECIP CHANCES AT KFMN AND KGUP. WILL
WAIT TIL JUST BEFORE 430 PM BEFORE MAKING THE FINAL CALL ON THIS. 42

CSM

.ABQ...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 6:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	39 min
Jun 21, 4:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.