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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 3, 2002Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2002, 4:40 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2002, 4:40 PM MDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2002, 5:30 PM MDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Guadalupe County, NM

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: -334 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3153 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -18 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 032240
SVRABQ
NMC019-032330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
440 PM MDT WED JUL 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL GUADALUPE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 530 PM MDT

* AT 437 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF DILIA...OR ABOUT 25 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SANTA ROSA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER RURAL NORTHWESTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY 
  OVER RURAL NORTHERN GUADALUPE COUNTY 
  OVER RURAL CENTRAL GUADALUPE COUNTY 

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

HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD INTERSECTIONS...DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.

LAT...LON 3521 10486 3520 10522 3492 10515 3505 10480

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 Jul 3, 3:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
305 PM MDT WED JUL 3 2002

LOW ALOFT HEADING EAST FROM WRN AZ HAS ERODED THE 4 CORNERS HIGH.
MID LVL PACIFIC MOISTURE AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING LOW ALOFT ALONG
WITH COOL POOL IS GENERATING CONVECTION IN NRN AZ AND WRN NM. LOW
WEAKENS AS IT TREKS EAST BUT LINGERING COOL POOL OF AIR ALOFT WILL
GENERATE ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS ACROSS NRN AND ERN NM
THUR AND THUR NITE. CONVECTION IN THE ERN NM WILL BE AIDED BY THE
INFLUX OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FM TX. EFFECTS OF COOL POOL LINGER
INTO FRIDAY...MAINLY NORTH.
RIDGE ALOFT REBUILDS OVR CO/UT/WY THIS WEEKEND THEN POSSIBLY
MIGRATING A BIT FURTHER NW EARLY NEXT WEEK. PATTERN ALLOWS FOR
LOW LVL EASTERLY FLOW INTRUSIONS INTO ERN PLAINS BUT NOT FAVORABLE
FOR WIDESPREAD AFTN TSTM ACTIVITY UNTIL THE MEXICAN MOISTURE TAP
BECOMES AVBL. NOT AS HOT...ESPCLY ERN PLAINS.

ABQ EB 069/091 066/091 066 07333
SAF EB 059/085 056/086 054 07444
TCC BB 068/084 066/083 065 07323

.ABQ...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 8:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	26 min
Jul 3, 4:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	66 min
Jul 3, 5:33 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Torrance	57 min
Jul 3, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.