Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2008, 2:31 AM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 29 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 7, 2008, 2:31 AM MDT (08:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2008, 3:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Curry County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 1354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1336 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS55 KABQ 070831
SVRABQ
NMC009-070900-
/O.NEW.KABQ.SV.W.0021.080507T0831Z-080507T0900Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
231 AM MDT WED MAY 7 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 300 AM MDT
* AT 228 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
CANNON AFB...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF CLOVIS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
RANCHVALE AND CLOVIS AROUND 240 AM MDT...
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS PRODUCED VERY LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN
ITS PATH...TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT PROPERTY.
HEAVY RAINS FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE SUDDEN AND
DANGEROUS FLOWS IN ARROYOS...DITCHES AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS. DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
LAT...LON 3493 10304 3440 10305 3431 10330 3431 10335
3438 10351
TIME...MOT...LOC 0831Z 219DEG 31KT 3440 10334
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS55 KABQ 070903
SVSABQ
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
303 AM MDT WED MAY 7 2008
NMC009-070913-
/O.EXP.KABQ.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080507T0900Z/
CURRY-
303 AM MDT WED MAY 7 2008
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR EASTERN CURRY
COUNTY...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM MDT
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO.
LAT...LON 3493 10304 3440 10305 3431 10330 3431 10335
3438 10351
TIME...MOT...LOC 0831Z 219DEG 31KT 3440 10334
$$
40The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 1:08 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt | 52 min |
| May 7, 1:58 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Roosevelt | 32 min |
| May 7, 7:59 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Sandoval and 5 more | 24 hr |
| May 7, 7:59 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 10 hr |
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.