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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2005, 9:46 PM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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 8, 2005, 9:46 PM MDT (03:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2005, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County De Baca County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:50 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 1007 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 8, 8:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 8:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 AM MDT FRI JUL 8 2005 NMZ001>021-026-091200- 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 FRI JUL 8 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 TONIGHT ACROSS THE FAR EASTERN PLAINS...MAINLY EAST OF A LINE FROM RATON TO FORT SUMNER TO ROSWELL. THE MAIN THREATS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIST MOST EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THROUGH AT LEAST THE WEEKEND ACROSS EASTERN PLAINS. THE HIGH PLAINS ADJACENT TO THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN WILL ALSO SEE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...BUT WITH A LOWER RISK OF SEVERE STORMS. 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 AT LEAST THE WEEKEND IN UNION...HARDING...QUAY...CURRY AND ROOSEVELT COUNTIES. WE WILL MONITOR OTHER PLAINS COUNTIES FOR ADDITIONAL SPOTTER ACTIVATION. 43
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 6:00 PM MDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 600 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2005 NMZ006-011>013-016-018>021-090130- CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS/ESTANCIA VALLEY-CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS- CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- HARDING COUNTY-LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS/HONDO VALLEY-QUAY COUNTY- ROOSEVELT COUNTY- 600 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2005 ...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS EVENING... SEVERAL AREAS WITH SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACTIVE ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO DURING EARLY EVENING. ALTHOUGH LESS ACTIVE THAN PREVIOUS EVENINGS THIS WEEK...SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL TO NEAR THREE QUARTER INCH IN DIAMETER. THROUGH 8 PM...ONE AREA OF INCREASING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER EASTERN TORRANCE AND WESTERN GUADALUPE COUNTIES OR BETWEEN MOUNTAINAIR AND SANTA ROSA. STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE LOCATED NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST OF ENCINO AND ALSO ALONG INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN CLINES CORNERS AND SANTA ROSA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED OVER FAR EASTERN CHAVES COUNTY NEARLY 40 MILES EAST OF ROSWELL OR ABOUT 5 TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE COMMUNITY OF CAPROCK IN LEA COUNTY. A FEW OTHER ISOLATED STORMS WILL BE DEVELOPING WEST OF TUCUMCARI AND NEAR MOSQUERO IN HARDING COUNTY. 03
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 7:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 730 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2005 NMZ006-007-012-013-018>021-090330- CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY- DE BACA COUNTY-FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS-HARDING COUNTY-QUAY COUNTY- ROOSEVELT COUNTY- 730 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2005 ...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS EVENING... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF GUSTY WINDS GREATER THAN 45 MPH AND HEAVY BURSTS OF LARGE HAIL WILL CONTINUE DURING MID EVENING ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO FROM NEAR CLAYTON SOUTH TO TUCUMCARI AND SANTA ROSA AND ALSO SOUTH OVER RURAL AREAS LOCATED BETWEEN FORT SUMNER AND CLOVIS. SOME OF THE STORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AND PRODUCING SHORT BURSTS OF MODERATE HAIL WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING. OTHER STORMS ARE MORE INTENSE AND WILL PRODUCE HAIL GREATER THAN ONE INCH AND WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH MAINLY OVER RURAL AREAS AND OPEN RANGELANDS BETWEEN CLOVIS...TUCUMCARI...AND FORT SUMNER. REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE STRONG STORMS AND CONTINUE TO LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS THROUGH 10 PM. 03
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 7:45 PM MDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 745 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2005 NMZ018-090300- DE BACA COUNTY- 745 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 2005 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED OVER SUMNER LAKE THROUGH 9 PM... AT 745 PM...A BOUNDARY OF STRONG WINDS WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 45 MPH WAS MOVING SOUTHWEST FROM QUAY COUNTY INTO NORTHEAST DE BACA COUNTY. BY 8 PM THESE STRONG NORTHEASTERLY WINDS WILL MOVE OVER SUMNER LAKE CREATING DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR BOATERS ON OPEN WATERS. BOATERS AND CAMPERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED FOR GUSTY WINDS LASTING FROM NEAR 8 PM THROUGH 9 PM. 03
Local storm report, Jul 8, 8:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 37 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 8, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 9:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 67 min |
| Jul 9, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 60 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.