Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 12, 2002, 4:10 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, Valencia County, New Mexico. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 12, 2002, 4:10 PM MDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 12, 2002, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 23 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.
- 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
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, 3:15 PM MDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 3:15 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 315 PM MDT THU SEP 12 2002 SFC DEWPTS HAVE DROPPED ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PRECLUDING CONVECTION THERE. I THINK THE CHANCE OF TSTMS THERE WILL INCREASE THOUGH AS COLDER AIR ALOFT SPREADS OVER CWA DESTABILIZING THE ATMOSPHERE. WITH THE UPPER TROF MOVING IN AS WELL AS THE SURFACE FRONT... THUNDERSTORMS COULD GO ALL NIGHT. RECEIVED A REPORT OF QUARTER SIZE HAIL FROM MAGDELENA AREA AND THINK WE COULD SEE SOME MORE THESE REPORTS THE REST OF THE AFTN AND EVENING. MINUS 10C TO -12C AT H5 TOMMORROW AFTN BASED ON MODEL FCSTS AND THIS MORNINGS H5 UPPER AIR CHART. DEWPTS STILL IN THE 40S AND 50S ACROSS UT AND AZ. THUS...EVEN THOUGH IT WILL DRY OUT A LITTLE AT THE SURFACE...ATMOSPHERE WILL STILL BE QUITE UNSTABLE TOMMORROW. FOR FRIDAY NIGHT...BACKDOOR WINDSHIFT/FRONT FCST BY ETA. MAKES GOOD SENSE WITH TROF MOVING SOUTH AND EAST THROUGH THE CENTRAL PLAINS AND UPPER RIDGE MOVING INTO THE MTNOUS WEST. SFC CHARTS SHOW 40S AND 50S DEWPTS ALL THE WAY UP INTO SW CANADA THIS AFTN. THINK MNTN OF TSTMS IN EAST SAT IS GOOD IDEA AND WILL KEEP IT GOING. BY SAT NIGHT... SUBSIDENCE SPREADS IN FROM THE NW SHUTTING OFF ANY FURTHER SHOT OF PRECIP. UPPER RIDGE TO DOMINATE SUN...THEN DRY WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT MON THRU THURS. JWS ABQ BB 056/076 054/078 055 46332 SAF BB 047/071 045/072 047 46433 TCC BB 057/081 054/076 053 46543 .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, 3:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 43 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, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval | 42 min |
| Sep 12, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 41 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.