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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2006, 10:39 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 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
- Aug 27, 2006, 10:39 PM MDT (04:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2006, 11:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:43 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1410 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 Aug 27, 9:55 PM MDT, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 27, 9:55 PM MDT, 44 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 27, 6:03 AM MDT, 16 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 603 AM MDT SUN AUG 27 2006 NMZ001>021-026-281200- 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- 603 AM MDT SUN AUG 27 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 OVER NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO...INCLUDING EASTERN COLFAX AND SAN MIGUEL COUNTIES...UNION COUNTY AND MUCH OF QUAY COUNTY. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE STRONG WIND GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH AND HAIL AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. ISOLATED MINOR FLOODING ALONG STREAMS...CREEKS AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY MOISTURE WILL BEGIN TO RETURN EARLY THIS WEEK ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 40...BUT SHOULD ADVANCE NORTH OVER ALL THE AREA BY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. FLOODING ALONG CREEKS...STREAMS AND SMALLER RIVERS WILL CONTINUE TO BE A CONCERN NEXT WEEK...INCLUDING CARRIZO CREEK COMING INTO THE RIO RUIDOSO RIVER...AS WELL AS THE RIO BONITO BELOW BONITO LAKE. WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED BETWEEN 2 PM AND 10 PM MDT ACROSS NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. 40
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 5:15 PM MDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 515 PM MDT SUN AUG 27 2006 NMZ005>007-280100- FAR NORTHEAST PLAINS-HARDING COUNTY-NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS- 515 PM MDT SUN AUG 27 2006 ...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN RATON AND CLAYTON... A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THROUGH 7 PM...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED ALONG A SOUTHWARD MOVING BOUNDARY OVER EASTERN COLFAX COUNTY AND WESTERN UNION COUNTY OR SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 87 SOUTH OF CAPULIN. STAY ALERT THROUGH EARLY EVENING STORMS THAT FIRST PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL THEN TRANSITION TEMPORARILY TO STORMS WITH LARGER HAIL AND WINDS EXCEEDING 50 MPH. CONTINUE TO LISTEN FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENT REGARDING STORM TRENDS AND LOCATIONS. 03
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 5:30 PM MDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 530 PM MDT SUN AUG 27 2006 NMZ013-018>021-280100- CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-CURRY COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY-QUAY COUNTY- ROOSEVELT COUNTY- 530 PM MDT SUN AUG 27 2006 ...ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO THROUGH EARLY EVENING... ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THROUGH 7 PM...A STORM WILL BE MOVING EAST OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ROOSEVELT COUNTY WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL FROM NEAR ELIDA EASTWARD OR PARALLEL TO STATE ROAD 114 TOWARDS DORA. ANOTHER STORM WILL BE LOCATED OVER THE OPEN COUNTRY SOUTHWEST OF FORT SUMNER. THIS STORM MAY MOVE EAST OVER HIGHWAY 20 ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF FORT SUMNER. STAY ALERT THROUGH EARLY EVENING FOR STORMS THAT FIRST PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL THEN TRANSITION TEMPORARILY TO STORMS WITH LARGER HAIL AND WINDS EXCEEDING 50 MPH. CONTINUE TO LISTEN FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENT REGARDING STORM TRENDS AND LOCATIONS. 03
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 7:57 PM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 757 PM MDT SUN AUG 27 2006 NMZ019-020-280230- CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-ROOSEVELT COUNTY- 757 PM MDT SUN AUG 27 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST CHAVES COUNTY AND SOUTHERN ROOSEVELT... SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MERGED INTO A LARGER AND MUCH STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST CHAVES COUNTY NORTH OF ELKINS AND A STORM IN ROOSEVELT COUNTY NORTHWEST OF MILNESAND HAS ALSO INCREASED. THESE TWO STORM AREAS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WITH INCREASING HAIL AND MAY REQUIRE THE ISSUANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS SHORTLY. REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER ARRIVING FROM THE WEST AT ELIDA AND ACROSS THE HERNANDEZ ARROYO AREA OF NORTHEAST CHAVES COUNTY. OTHER THREATENING WEATHER MAY FORM SOUTHWEST OF PEP IN SOUTHWEST ROOSEVELT COUNTY. CONTINUE TO LISTEN FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENT REGARDING STORM TRENDS AND LOCATIONS. 03
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 10:24 PM MDT, 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 8:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 58 min |
| Aug 27, 9:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 60 min |
| Aug 27, 10:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 46 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.