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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 14, 2002Bernalillo County, Torrance County, Valencia County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 5:19 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, Torrance County, Valencia County, New Mexico. It was in force for 41 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 14, 2002, 5:19 PM MDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2002, 6:00 PM MDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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.

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

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 340 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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -407 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2410 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 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 142319
SVRABQ
NMC001-057-061-150015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN BERNALILLO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO       
  NORTHERN VALENCIA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 513 PM MDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  OVER SOUTH VALLEY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF ALBUQUERQUE...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CHILILI...ESCABOSA...
  MCINTOSH AND TAJIQUE

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

LAT...LON 3512 10667 3496 10677 3457 10599 3481 10584

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 14, 3:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
350 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 2002

BIG STORY THE REST OF THIS EVENING WILL BE THE STRONG STORMS AND
SEVERE WEATHER. STORMS SLOWLY DRIFTING OUT IN THE PLAINS WHICH MAKES
THEM ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. EXPECT THEM TO SLOWLY DRIFT TO THE
EAST...SOUTHEAST WITH DIMINISHING ACTIVITY BY LATE EVENING. SAME
THINGS ACROSS THE WEST AND HAVE HAD REPORTS OF HAIL THERE AS WELL.
DEWPOINTS START TO GO DOWN ACROSS THE AREA ON SATURDAY WITH THE WEST
REALLY DRYING OUT. NEAR BREEZY WINDS WILL BE SEEN ACROSS CWFA
ESPECIALLY FAVORING THE WEST ON SATURDAY. EVEN WITH THE LOWERING
DEWPOINTS ACROSS THE EAST...STILL CANT RULE OUT SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS
ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NORTHEAST BUT ALSO INCLUDING THE EAST SLOPES
OF THE SANGRES. BACKDOOR COLD FRONT ALTHOUGH NOT AS STRONG AS THE
PAST COUPLE OF DAYS EXPECTED TO SWING DOWN SATURDAY NIGHT AND
PROVIDE HIGHER DEWPOINTS AGAIN. THUS ANOTHER CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. THE COLD
FRONT WONT BE NEARLY AS STRONG AND IS NOT EXPECTED TO PUSH THROUGH
THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. DRYING AND WARMING THROUGH THE REST OF THE
FORECAST. WACHTER

.ABQ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THROUGH 8 PM FOR NORTHEAST..EAST
CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NEW MEXICO...

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:18 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
318 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 2002

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

0310 PM    12 N CIMARRON             NM   1.25 INCH HAIL
06/14/02   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
349 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 2002

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

0347 PM    5 N SPRINGER              NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/02   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC

Local storm report, Jun 14, 4:20 PM MDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
420 PM MDT FRI JUN 14 2002

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

0355 PM    1 N SPRINGER              NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/14/02   COLFAX                         REPORTED BY PUBLIC

JLP

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, 5:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Mora	39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.