Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 25, 2005San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2005, 5:44 PM MDT for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2005, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2005, 6:15 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County San Miguel County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 25, 1:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KABQ 252344
SVRABQ
NMC047-260015-
/O.NEW.KABQ.SV.W.0021.050525T2344Z-050526T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
544 PM MDT WED MAY 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 615 PM MDT

* AT 540 PM MDT...SKYWARN SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TECOLOTE...OR ABOUT 24
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAS VEGAS...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTH CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY AROUND 550 PM MDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL
AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3560 10487 3561 10546 3523 10519 3523 10438

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS55 KABQ 260006
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
604 PM MDT WED MAY 25 2005

NMC047-260015-
/O.CON.KABQ.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050526T0015Z/
SAN MIGUEL-
604 PM MDT WED MAY 25 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL SAN
MIGUEL COUNTY UNTIL 615 PM MDT...

AT 555 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING HAIL UP
TO GOLF BALL SIZE.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOS
MONTOYAS...OR ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF SANTA ROSA...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTH CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY AROUND 610 PM MDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3560 10487 3561 10546 3523 10519 3523 10438

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	30 min
May 25, 5:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	61 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.