Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 9, 2004Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2004, 5:29 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 46 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: May 9, 2004, 5:29 PM MDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2004, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Curry County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 65 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -429 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2199 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 092329
SVRABQ
NMC009-100015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
529 PM MDT SUN MAY 9 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 530 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RANCHVALE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  CLOVIS...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  3 MILES SOUTH OF RANCHVALE AT 535 PM MDT
  5 MILES NORTH OF CANNON AFB AT 540 PM MDT
  2 MILES EAST OF SAINT VRAIN AT 615 PM MDT


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

LAT...LON 3433 10306 3460 10310 3453 10364 3432 10358
          3432 10335
$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 3:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	33 min
May 9, 4:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	32 min
May 9, 4:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	61 min
May 9, 5:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2004 Every 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.