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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 13, 2002Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2002, 6:57 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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: Jun 13, 2002, 6:57 PM MDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2002, 7:45 PM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 214 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 7:42 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Abbott, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 287 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: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 140057
SVRABQ
NMC007-140145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
656 PM MDT THU JUN 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 653 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MAXWELL...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF
  SPRINGER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR ABBOTT AT 725 PM MDT
  NEAR FARLEY AT 740 PM MDT

SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS OF AT LEAST 58 MPH AND LARGE
HAIL. MOVE INDOORS AND AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3668 10474 3623 10472 3624 10401 3688 10401

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	36 min
Jun 13, 9:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	38 min
Jun 13, 9:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	49 min
Jun 13, 10:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	39 min
Jun 14, 2:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	42 min
Jun 14, 2:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	40 min
Jun 14, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Cibola, Socorro	47 min
Jun 14, 3:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	58 min
Jun 14, 3:34 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Colfax	41 min
Jun 14, 4:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	59 min
Jun 14, 4:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	50 min
Jun 14, 5:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	39 min
Jun 14, 5:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Torrance, Valencia	41 min
Jun 14, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	45 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.