Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2004, 2:12 PM MDT for Colfax County, Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2004, 2:12 PM MDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2004, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 6, 3:00 AM MDT, 11 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 3:00 AM MDT, 11 hours 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 6:00 AM MDT, 8 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT TUE JUL 6 2004 CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME NMZ001>021-026-071200- CAPITAN/NORTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS- CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS/ESTANCIA VALLEY-CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS- CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF CHAVES COUNTY- HARDING COUNTY-LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS/HONDO VALLEY- LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS INCLUDING JEMEZ-NORTHWEST PLATEAU-QUAY COUNTY- ROOSEVELT COUNTY-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/UPPER GILA REGION-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- WESTCENTRAL MOUNTAINS- 600 AM MDT TUE JUL 6 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY A BACK DOOR COOL FRONT WILL PENETRATE THE EAST TODAY AND USE THE STRONG DYNAMICS AND SHEAR ASSOCIATED WITH THE RIGHT REAR QUADRANT OF THE POLAR JET STREAM TO TRIGGER A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON NEW MEXICO/S EASTERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP ON THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS LATE WEDNESDAY. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. REMEMBER...WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON IN COLFAX...CURRY...DE BACA...GUADALUPE...HARDING...QUAY...MORA...ROOSEVELT...SAN MIGUEL AND UNION COUNTIES. THIS EVENING SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED IN CHAVES...CURRY...DE BACA...GUADALUPE...HARDING...QUAY...ROOSEVELT AND UNION COUNTIES. 44
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 44 min |
| Jul 6, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 48 min |
| Jul 6, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.