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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 5, 2006De Baca County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 2006, 3:15 PM MDT for De Baca 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
May 5, 2006, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2006, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
45 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 21:18 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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 2006-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2006-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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, 3:00 PM MDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 5, 3:00 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 5, 6:00 AM MDT, 9 hours 15 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 8:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding58 min
May 4, 8:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora54 min
May 4, 9:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion34 min
May 4, 10:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding54 min
May 4, 11:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding58 min
May 5, 1:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe43 min
May 5, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves, De Baca45 min
May 5, 2:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe50 min
May 5, 3:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves40 min
May 5, 4:07 PM MDTTornado WarningABQChaves38 min
May 5, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.