Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2010, 6:44 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 16 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
- May 18, 2010, 6:44 PM MDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2010, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Union County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 18, 2:37 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.8
- Supercell composite
- 19.0
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 May 18, 6:19 PM MDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 6:19 PM MDT, 25 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 18, 7:30 AM MDT, 11 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 730 AM MDT TUE MAY 18 2010 NMZ501>540-191130- NORTHWEST PLATEAU-CHUSKA MOUNTAINS-FAR NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS- NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-WEST CENTRAL PLATEAU-WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- WEST CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS- SAN FRANCISCO RIVER VALLEY-SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-JEMEZ MOUNTAINS- WEST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 9500 FEET/RED RIVER- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 9500 FEET- EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- LOWER CHAMA RIVER VALLEY-SANTA FE METRO AREA-ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA- LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-ESTANCIA VALLEY- CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-UPPER TULAROSA VALLEY- SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA- FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-UNION COUNTY- HARDING COUNTY-EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY-GUADALUPE COUNTY- QUAY COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY-SOUTHWEST CHAVES COUNTY- 516 AM MDT TUE MAY 18 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS NOW A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HAIL AND TORNADOES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING FROM EXTREME NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO ALONG THE BORDER WITH COLORADO...OKLAHOMA AND THE TEXAS PANHANDLES TO EXTREME EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ALONG THE TEXAS BORDER...AS THERMODYNAMIC CONDITIONS AND WIND PROFILES CONTINUE TO BE FAVORABLE FOR STRONG CONVECTION ACROSS THIS AREA. IN ADDITION THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR MARGINAL CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS FROM THE SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS EAST AND NORTHEASTWARD TO THE EAST CENTRAL PLAINS FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS RETURNS LATE FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY AS SOUTHWEST WINDS INCREASE AND HUMIDITIES DECREASE ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...WEATHER CAN CHANGE VERY RAPIDLY. ALWAYS USE THE LATEST FORECASTS...WATCHES AND WARNINGS FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND BRIEF TORNADOES IN THE COUNTIES OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO ALONG THE TEXAS BORDER. 01
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 18, 2:18 PM MDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 218 PM MDT TUE MAY 18 2010 NMZ527-528-182045- FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA- 218 PM MDT TUE MAY 18 2010 AT 212 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR RATON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM COULD GENERATE HAIL TO ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF INCLUDE RATON AND SUGARITE. && LAT...LON 3688 10417 3675 10453 3698 10455 3698 10423 TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 231DEG 22KT 3690 10442
Special weather statement, May 18, 5:09 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 509 PM MDT TUE MAY 18 2010 NMZ531-532-182345- EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY-HARDING COUNTY- 509 PM MDT TUE MAY 18 2010 AT 503 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MOSQUERO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF GENERATING HAIL TO ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE MOSQUERO AND RURAL NORTHEASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY AND RURAL CENTRAL HARDING COUNTY. MOTORISTS CAN EXPECT BRIEF...BUT SUDDEN CHANGES IN VISIBILITY AND PONDING OF WATER ON THE HIGHWAYS AS THROUGH THE AREA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. && LAT...LON 3600 10373 3579 10360 3567 10400 3583 10410 TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 240DEG 22KT 3578 10398
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 12:46 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 40 min |
| May 19, 4:19 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | ABQ | 14 hr | |
| May 19, 6:39 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 11 hr |
Nearby
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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.