Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2006, 3:35 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 55 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 6, 2006, 3:35 PM MDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2006, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Colfax County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 204 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 266 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS55 KABQ 062136
SVRABQ
NMC007-062230-
/O.NEW.KABQ.SV.W.0021.060506T2135Z-060506T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
335 PM MDT SAT MAY 6 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 430 PM MDT
* AT 329 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES
NORTH OF FARLEY TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF ABBOTT...AND MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
FARLEY AND ABBOTT AROUND 350 PM MDT...
SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. MOVE INDOORS AND
AVOID WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3651 10400 3623 10401 3623 10431 3645 10448
3655 10427
$$
DPORTER3 follow-up statements
000
WWUS55 KABQ 062157
SVSABQ
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
357 PM MDT SAT MAY 6 2006
NMC007-062230-
/O.CON.KABQ.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060506T2230Z/
COLFAX-
357 PM MDT SAT MAY 6 2006
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
COLFAX COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM MDT...
AT 355 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ABBOTT...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF
SPRINGER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
ABBOTT AROUND 405 PM MDT...
HIGHWAY 56 AROUND 405 PM MDT...
LAT...LON 3647 10401 3623 10401 3622 10431 3640 10443
3651 10426
$$
DPORTER000
WWUS55 KABQ 062219
SVSABQ
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
419 PM MDT SAT MAY 6 2006
NMC007-062230-
/O.CON.KABQ.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060506T2230Z/
COLFAX-
419 PM MDT SAT MAY 6 2006
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
COLFAX COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM MDT...
AT 412 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR ABBOTT...OR ABOUT 22 MILES EAST OF SPRINGER...MOVING
SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
LAT...LON 3647 10401 3623 10401 3622 10431 3640 10443
3651 10426
$$
23000
WWUS55 KABQ 062230
SVSABQ
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
430 PM MDT SAT MAY 6 2006
NMC007-062240-
/O.EXP.KABQ.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060506T2230Z/
COLFAX-
430 PM MDT SAT MAY 6 2006
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR SOUTHEASTERN COLFAX
COUNTY AT 430 PM MDT...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER SEVERE...THUS THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAINS...
SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3647 10401 3623 10401 3622 10431 3640 10443
3651 10426
$$
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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.