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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 13, 2002San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2002, 9:56 PM MDT for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 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: Jun 13, 2002, 9:56 PM MDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2002, 10:45 PM MDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County San Miguel 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 291 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 140356
SVRABQ
NMC047-140445-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 1045 PM MDT

* AT 954 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15
  MILES EAST OF LAS VEGAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER RURAL CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY 
  OVER RURAL SOUTHERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY 

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

LAT...LON 3565 10495 3546 10516 3522 10490 3532 10453

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 Jun 13, 8:45 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 8:45 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
845 PM MDT THU JUN 13 2002

SEVERE TSTM WATCH ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. TRICKY FORECAST TONIGHT AS RUC
AND MESO-ETA FIRE CONVECTION DURING THE NIGHT ACROSS THE EC PLAINS
AND MOVE IT SWD. WILL KEEP IN RATHER HIGH POPS (30-50) ACROSS THE
PLAINS OVERNIGHT AS WELL AS THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER. JUST
MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE CLOUDS...WINDS AND TEMPS OTHERWISE. 40

.ABQ...NONE.

CHJ

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:12 PM MDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
412 PM MDT THU JUN 13 2002

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

0350 PM    12 NE ABBOTT              NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/13/02   COLFAX

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:21 PM MDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
421 PM MDT THU JUN 13 2002

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

0347 PM    15 NE ABBOTT              NM   .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/02   COLFAX

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:59 PM MDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
459 PM MDT THU JUN 13 2002

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

0458 PM    15 NE ABBOTT              NM   .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/02   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC

Local storm report, Jun 13, 6:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
616 PM MDT THU JUN 13 2002

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

0608 PM    20 S RATON                NM   .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/02   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Jun 13, 7:45 PM MDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
745 PM MDT THU JUN 13 2002

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

0742 PM    5 NE ABBOTT               NM   .75 INCH HAIL
06/13/02   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC

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, 6:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	48 min
Jun 13, 9:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	38 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

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.