Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Albuquerque, NM

Issued

Jul 3, 2002, 8:09 PM MDT (02:09 UTC)

Expired

Jul 3, 2002, 9:15 PM MDT

In force

66 min

Issued by

NWS Albuquerque, NM

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Guadalupe County, NM

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.

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NMC019-040315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM MDT

* AT 801 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF NEWKIRK...OR ABOUT 23 MILES
  EAST OF SANTA ROSA...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  6 MILES SOUTH OF NEWKIRK AT 815 PM MDT

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

HEAVY RAINS FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE SUDDEN AND
DANGEROUS FLOWS IN ARROYOS...DITCHES AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.

LAT...LON 3491 10443 3486 10413 3520 10412 3522 10447

NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 3:05 PM MDT, 5 hours 4 minutes earlier.

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.

In the hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
801 PM MDT WED JUL 3 2002

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

0759 PM    MIDWAY                    NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/03/02   CHAVES                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

JLP

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

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.