Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 4, 2009Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2009, 2:03 PM MDT for Colfax County, Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 57 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 4, 2009, 2:03 PM MDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2009, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Colfax County, NM, Union County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 213 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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.

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 4, 3:00 AM MDT, 11 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 3:00 AM MDT, 11 hours 3 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 6:00 AM MDT, 8 hours 3 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 3:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax, Harding, Mora	47 min
Aug 4, 4:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Socorro, Torrance, Valencia	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 2009 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.