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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 27, 2002Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2002, 1:15 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2002, 1:15 PM MDT (19:15 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2002, 2:00 PM MDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Union County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 1:17 PM MDT	Hail 1	Hayden, NM
May 27, 1:40 PM MDT	Hail 1.75	Hayden, 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 1308 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -224 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 271915
SVRABQ
NMC059-272000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
115 PM MDT MON MAY 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 200 PM MDT

* AT 113 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAYDEN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF AMISTAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER HAYDEN AT 140 PM MDT

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF VERY LARGE HAIL WHICH CAN
CAUSE INJURY AND PROPERTY DAMAGE. TAKE SHELTER NOW.

LAT...LON 3610 10322 3609 10336 3586 10336 3581 10315

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 1:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	41 min
May 27, 2:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	45 min
May 27, 2:22 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Union	23 min
May 27, 2:46 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Union	24 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.