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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 15, 2005Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2005, 4:32 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 45 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, 4:32 PM MDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2005, 5:17 PM MDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Guadalupe County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2005-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 134 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2005-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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, 2:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 6:00 AM MDT, 10 hours 32 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, 2 hours 58 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:20 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves55 min
Jun 14, 8:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves62 min
Jun 14, 8:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt56 min
Jun 14, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves21 min
Jun 14, 9:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt62 min
Jun 15, 1:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax56 min
Jun 15, 2:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax52 min
Jun 15, 2:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2005Every 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.