Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2008, 1:35 PM MDT for Chaves County, Lincoln County, New Mexico. It was in force for 40 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
- Jul 15, 2008, 1:35 PM MDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2008, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chaves County, NM, Lincoln County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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
Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 777 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Jul 15, 3:00 AM MDT, 10 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 3:00 AM MDT, 10 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 6:01 AM MDT, 7 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 601 AM MDT TUE JUL 15 2008 NMZ001>021-026-161215- 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- 601 AM MDT TUE JUL 15 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. HOWEVER...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO WILL CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... CONTACT LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TO REPORT HEAVY RAINFALL OR FLOODING. 52
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 6:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Santa Fe | 119 min |
| Jul 14, 6:04 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 116 min |
| Jul 14, 6:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:27 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 8:21 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 84 min |
| Jul 14, 8:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Jul 14, 8:44 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | McKinley, San Juan | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 11:53 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:06 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | De Baca, Lincoln | 114 min |
| Jul 15, 3:01 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, Lincoln | 119 min |
| Jul 15, 3:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 39 min |
| Jul 15, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 20 min |
| Jul 15, 4:04 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 4:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Catron, Cibola | 113 min |
| Jul 15, 4:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 53 min |
| Jul 15, 4:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Curry, Quay, Roosevelt | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 5:07 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Colfax | 113 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.