Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 13, 2003Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2003, 2:55 PM MDT for Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 55 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, 2003, 2:55 PM MDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2003, 3:50 PM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -284 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 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.

117 
WUUS55 KABQ 132055
SVRABQ
NMC057-132150-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
254 PM MDT FRI JUN 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN TORRANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 350 PM MDT

* AT 253 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES EAST OF CLINES CORNERS...OR ABOUT 29
  MILES NORTHWEST OF VAUGHN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER RURAL NORTHEASTERN TORRANCE COUNTY 

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

HEAVY RAINS FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE SUDDEN AND
DANGEROUS FLOWS IN ARROYOS...DITCHES AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.

LAT...LON 3504 10529 3504 10574 3464 10566 3462 10531

$$

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, 10:52 AM MDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 10:52 AM MDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1052 AM MDT FRI JUN 13 2003

UPDATED ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR EARLY CONVECTION FORMING OVER THE
NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS...WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS. ALSO
INCLUDED POPS FOR THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THINKING THAT A LITTLE OF
THIS ACTIVITY COULD MOVE INTO THE VALLEY...HOWEVER MUCH OF IT WILL BE
VIRGA SHOWERS.

.ABQ...NONE.

MARTIN

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 13, 6:00 AM MDT, 8 hours 55 minutes before

NMZ001>021-026-141200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
600 AM MDT FRI JUN 13 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE FAR
NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS AND PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS
WILL INITIATE OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND MOVE OVER THE NORTHEAST
PLAINS. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH A FEW OF THE
STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE
EASTERN PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED IN THE NORTHEAST PLAINS TODAY.

AS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:03 PM MDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
203 PM MDT FRI JUN 13 2003

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

0115 PM    MINERAL HILL              NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/13/03   SAN MIGUEL                     PUBLIC REPORT

JLP

Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:38 PM MDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
238 PM MDT FRI JUN 13 2003

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

0235 PM    10 NE FOLSOM              NM   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/13/03   UNION                          PUBLIC REPORT

JLP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 6:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	42 min
Jun 12, 6:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	50 min
Jun 13, 2:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	44 min
Jun 13, 2:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	66 min
Jun 13, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	35 min
Jun 13, 5:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	39 min
Jun 13, 5:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.