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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 23, 2004Cibola County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2004, 2:26 PM MST for Cibola County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 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 23, 2004, 2:26 PM MST (21:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2004, 3:30 PM MST
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cibola County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Flgstf/Belemont, AZ (KFGZ), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 348 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2004-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Flgstf/Belemont, AZ at 12:00Z on 2004-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2614 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 23, 1:48 PM MST, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 1:48 PM MST, 38 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 9:55 AM MST, 4 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1055 AM MDT FRI JUL 23 2004

UPDATED TO INCLUDE MENTION OF FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT AND SATURDAY
MORNING SOUTHEAST HALF OF COUNTY WARNING AREA.

NMZ001>021-026-241200-
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-
1055 AM MDT FRI JUL 23 2004

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY

FLASH FLOOD WATCH ISSUED FOR SOUTHEAST PORTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA
TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES TORRANCE AND LINCOLN COUNTIES EASTWARD TO THE
TEXAS STATE LINE. RESIDENT HIGH SOIL MOISTURE FROM PREVIOUS DAYS
RAIN TOTALS AND AN EXPECTED SLOW MOVING BAND OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS HAS PROMPTED THE WATCH. ELSEWHERE STRONG STORMS
CONTAINING SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS MAY POP UP THIS AFTERNOON
ALONG THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE EASTWARD TO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND
ALSO LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED STRONGER STORMS
CONTAINING HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG THE INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR LATER
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES THROUGH NOON ON SATURDAY ACROSS THE
SOUTHEAST. SLOW MOVING AND HEAVY BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
EXPECTED TO AFFECT THAT AREA. ELSEWHERE ISOLATED STRONGER STORMS
EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY ACROSS WESTERN AREAS WHERE SUFFICIENT ENOUGH
INSTABILITY WILL BE FAVORABLE.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY AND MONDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS ROUGHLY THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF NEW
MEXICO. OTHERWISE SCATTERED TO LOCALLY NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ON A DAILY BASIS ACROSS NORTHERN AND
CENTRAL PORTIONS OF NEW MEXICO...MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON INTO THE
NIGHTTIME HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO
PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING RAINS. REMEMBER...WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY
RAPIDLY IN NEW MEXICO. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND
WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ACROSS NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
SUNDAY AND MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

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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.