Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
- 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
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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</html>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. 50
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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.