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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 2, 2007Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2007, 11:23 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 67 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: Jun 2, 2007, 11:23 PM MDT (05:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2007, 12:30 AM MDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Curry County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 1384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 4.7

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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 Jun 2, 10:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 10:16 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 2, 5:50 AM MDT, 17 hours 33 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
550 AM MDT SAT JUN 2 2007

NMZ001>021-026-031200-
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-
550 AM MDT SAT JUN 2 2007

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 OVER EASTERN NEW
MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...FROM RATON TO LAS VEGAS...
VAUGHN AND ROSWELL EAST TO THE TEXAS STATE LINE. LARGE HAIL UP
TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS...ONE AND THREE QUARTER INCHES...WILL BE
THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. IN ADDITION...WINDS COULD GUST TO
65 MPH. AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN OVER EASTERN
NEW MEXICO SUNDAY AND MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LARGE HAIL
AND HIGH WINDS...ALONG WITH TORRENTIAL RAIN AND AN ISOLATED
TORNADO ARE ALL POSSIBLE.

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 300 PM AND 1000 PM MDT
OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO...FROM ROUGHLY RATON TO LAS VEGAS...VAUGHN
AND ROSWELL EAST TO THE TEXAS STATE LINE.

40

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 6:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	64 min
Jun 2, 8:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	56 min
Jun 3, 12:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	67 min
Jun 3, 1:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Mora	63 min
Jun 3, 2:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba	60 min
Jun 3, 2:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	59 min
Jun 3, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	60 min
Jun 3, 3:10 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	50 min
Jun 3, 3:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	55 min
Jun 3, 4:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	59 min
Jun 3, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	62 min
Jun 3, 4:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	64 min
Jun 3, 5:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	58 min
Jun 3, 5:08 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	52 min
Jun 3, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	63 min
Jun 3, 5:43 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2007 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.