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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2005, 10:01 PM MDT for Harding County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 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 6, 2005, 10:01 PM MDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 416 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
- 829 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 6, 9:05 PM MDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 9:05 PM MDT, 56 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT WED JUL 6 2005 NMZ001>021-026-071200- 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- 547 AM MDT WED JUL 6 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ON THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS. THE MAIN THREATS INCLUDE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PLAINS ADJACENT TO THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN WILL ALSO SEE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...AND THE SLIGHT RISK WILL BE EXTENDED WESTWARD TO THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN IF NEEDED. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL CONTINUE AS THE PRIMARY THREATS. WEATHER CAN CHANGE RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY ON THE PLAINS OF UNION...HARDING...QUAY...CURRY AND ROOSEVELT COUNTIES. WE WILL MONITOR OTHER PLAINS COUNTIES FOR ADDITIONAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION. 44
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 7:44 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 744 PM MDT WED JUL 6 2005 NMZ006-007-070215- FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS-HARDING COUNTY- ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING BETWEEN ABBOTT AND MILLS... AT 739 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 50 MPH AND HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER 6 MILES NORTH OF MILLS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE RURAL SOUTHEASTERN COLFAX COUNTY AND RURAL NORTHWESTERN HARDING COUNTY. MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT BRIEF...BUT SUDDEN CHANGES IN VISIBILITY AND PONDING OF WATER ON THE HIGHWAYS AS THIS STORM MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. 40
Local storm report, Jul 6, 8:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, San Miguel | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 8:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 11:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 57 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.