Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 746
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 12, 2004, 2:15 PM MDT for 4 counties in Colorado; 14 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2004, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Alamosa County, CO, Conejos County, CO, Costilla County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Union County, NM
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 42 min |
| Aug 12, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 39 min |
| Aug 12, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 60 min |
| Aug 12, 5:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Costilla | 97 min |
| Aug 12, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 86 min |
| Aug 12, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 58 min |
| Aug 12, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Aug 12, 6:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Aug 12, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 6:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Aug 12, 7:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 114 min |
| Aug 12, 7:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 30 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 1:11 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamosa, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Huerfano, Las Animas and 2 more | 94 min |
| Aug 11, 7:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lincoln, Mora and 1 more | 30 min |
Nearby
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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.