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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 5, 2006Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2006, 2:40 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 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: May 5, 2006, 2:40 PM MDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2006, 3:30 PM MDT
In force: 50 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 20:40 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, 8.7 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-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: 4050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 5, 12:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 12:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1205 PM MDT FRI MAY 5 2006

.UPDATE...
WILL UPDATE ZFPABQ TO INCLUDE TORNADO WATCH 293 FOR CHAVES COUNTY
UNTIL 03Z. DPORTER

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION 259 AM MDT FRI MAY 5 2006...DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER
CONCERNS EARLIER THIS MORNING...COULD NOT TAKE AN EXTENSIVE LOOK AT
THE FORECAST...BUT IT APPEARS TO BE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH
LATEST MODEL RUNS. DID NOT MAKE MANY CHANGES TO THE PREVIOUS
FORECAST PACKAGE. UPR LVL TROF WILL REMAIN WEST OF THE STATE AGAIN
TODAY...SO WOULD EXPECT ANOTHER FAIRLY ACTIVE DAY AND EVENING EAST
OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN. MAIN TROF AXIS WILL SWING ACROSS THE
STATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. CONTINUED S/WV ACTIVITY
DROPPING SE THROUGH THE NW FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE PROVIDING
SUFFICIENT ENERGY FOR A LEAST ISOLATED POPS EACH DAY ACROSS THE
EASTERN PLAINS.

NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED FORECAST.

&&

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

&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 6:00 AM MDT, 8 hours 40 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
600 AM MDT FRI MAY 5 2006

NMZ001>021-026-061200-
NORTHWEST PLATEAU-NORTHWEST MOUNTAINS INCLUDING JEMEZ-
UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-
NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-HARDING COUNTY-FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS-
WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-
MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY/ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA-
SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS/ESTANCIA VALLEY-
CONCHAS LAKE/GUADALUPE COUNTY-QUAY COUNTY-
SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS/UPPER GILA REGION-LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-
LINCOLN COUNTY HIGH PLAINS/HONDO VALLEY-
CAPITAN/NORTHERN SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS-DE BACA COUNTY-
CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-
GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF CHAVES COUNTY-
600 AM MDT FRI MAY 5 2006

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ACROSS THE EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PLAINS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...WEATHER CAN
CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND
WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS
THE EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PLAINS.

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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 4, 8:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	58 min
May 4, 8:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	54 min
May 4, 9:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	34 min
May 4, 10:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	54 min
May 4, 11:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding	58 min
May 5, 1:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	43 min
May 5, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	45 min
May 5, 3:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	45 min
May 5, 3:50 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	40 min
May 5, 4:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Chaves	38 min
May 5, 4:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	67 min

Nearby

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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.