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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 14, 2002Harding County, Mora County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 5:06 PM MDT for Harding County, Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 39 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: Jun 14, 2002, 5:06 PM MDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2002, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 5:20 PM MDT	Hail 1	Mills, NM
Jun 14, 5:45 PM MDT	Hail 1	Roy, 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 14, 2:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 60 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 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.

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 142306
SVRABQ
NMC021-033-142345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
505 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN HARDING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
  EAST CENTRAL MORA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT

* AT 505 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF MILLS...OR ABOUT 19 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF WAGON MOUND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CHICOSA LAKE STATE PARK...
  ROY AND SOLANO

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60
MPH...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCED VERY LARGE HAIL AS WELL AS A 
LARGE QUANTITY OF HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...TAKE ACTION TO 
PROTECT PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 3622 10428 3611 10450 3582 10434 3584 10394

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, 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, 5:19 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.