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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 12, 2002Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2002, 3:02 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 43 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: Sep 12, 2002, 3:02 PM MDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired: Sep 12, 2002, 3:45 PM MDT
In force: 43 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 643 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 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.

670 
WUUS55 KABQ 122102
SVRABQ
NMC019-122145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
302 PM MDT THU SEP 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM MDT

* AT 257 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF PASTURA...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  EAST OF VAUGHN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PASTURA AT 320 PM MDT

SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF AT LEAST 60 MPH AND LARGE
HAIL. MOVE INDOORS AND AVOID WINDOWS.

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 3476 10513 3454 10497 3461 10489 3464 10458
          3492 10475

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 Sep 12, 10:30 AM MDT, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 10:30 AM MDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1030 AM MDT THU SEP 12 2002

UPDATED MORNING ZONES TO REMOVE AFTERNOON FOG FROM NE HILANDS.
REMOVED MORNING FOG FROM OTHER ZONES AND TOUCHED UP TEMPS. JWS

.ABQ...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 12, 1:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	28 min
Sep 12, 2:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	42 min
Sep 12, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	45 min
Sep 12, 3:36 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	39 min
Sep 12, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Valencia	35 min
Sep 12, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	42 min
Sep 12, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	41 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.