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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 15, 2005Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2005, 2:18 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 23 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: Jun 15, 2005, 2:18 PM MDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2005, 2:41 PM MDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2197 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Jun 15, 10:44 AM MDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 10:44 AM MDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1044 AM MDT WED JUN 15 2005

.UPDATE...TEMPERATURES HEATING UP NICELY THIS AFTERNOON. WHILE LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE BEING MIXED OUT OVER CENTRAL AREAS...MID LEVEL
MOISTURE SHOULD PROVIDE FUEL FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER
HIGHER TERRAIN THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY LATE. THEREFORE HAVE
UPPED POPS THERE. LOOKS LIKE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY
WILL SET UP OVER EAST CENTRAL AREAS LATER TODAY...SO UPPED POPS THIS
EVENING IN THOSE LOCATIONS WHERE CONVECTIVE FOCUS LIKELY TO SHIFT.
COULD BE SEVERE IN THOSE LOCATIONS ALTHOUGH BEST UPPER LEVEL FORCING
REMAINS IN THE NORTHEAST NEAR UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE PASSAGE...KD

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION...254 AM MDT WED JUN 15 2005
MOISTURE HAS INCREASED SINCE YESTERDAY/S FROPA. THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING WILL SEE MUCH MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG STORMS ACROSS THE EASTERN
PLAINS. THE FAR WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE STATE WILL SEE DRY
THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS. BY THURSDAY FOCUS FOR ACTIVITY
SHIFTS BACK TO THE EASTERN PLAINS WITH ANOTHER DAY OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS.

BEGINNING FRIDAY AND EXTENDING THROUGH THE END OF THE EXTENDED...UPR
LVL RDG BUILDS ACROSS THE AREA LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF CONVECTION AND
INCREASING TEMPS WITH TIME. NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED FORECAST...16

&&

.ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

19

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 6:00 AM MDT, 8 hours 18 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
600 AM MDT WED JUN 15 2005

NMZ001>021-026-161200-
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-
WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-
600 AM MDT WED JUN 15 2005

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
AND EVENING ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PLAINS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PLAINS. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREAT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PLAINS.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 1:34 PM MDT, 44 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	55 min
Jun 14, 8:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	62 min
Jun 14, 8:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	56 min
Jun 14, 9:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	21 min
Jun 14, 9:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	62 min
Jun 15, 1:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	56 min
Jun 15, 2:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	52 min
Jun 15, 4:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.