Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 12, 2011Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2011, 6:56 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 27 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: Aug 12, 2011, 6:56 PM MDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 2011, 7:23 PM MDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Curry County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

622 
WUUS55 KABQ 130056
SVRABQ
NMC009-130145-
/O.NEW.KABQ.SV.W.0049.110813T0056Z-110813T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
656 PM MDT FRI AUG 12 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN CURRY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 745 PM MDT

* AT 651 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND   
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED      
  NEAR CLOVIS...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CLOVIS...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 79 MPH WERE REPORTED 5 MILES NORTH OF CLOVIS. 
WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...SEEK SAFE SHELTER AND 
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 3431 10304 3431 10334 3451 10331 3456 10310
TIME...MOT...LOC 0055Z 345DEG 11KT 3444 10317

$$

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1 follow-up statement

276 
WWUS55 KABQ 130123
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
723 PM MDT FRI AUG 12 2011

NMC009-130131-
/O.CAN.KABQ.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-110813T0145Z/
CURRY-
723 PM MDT FRI AUG 12 2011

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEASTERN CURRY
COUNTY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER SEVERE...THUS THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL LIKELY FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 3431 10304 3431 10334 3451 10331 3456 10310
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 345DEG 11KT 3436 10315

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 6:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	89 min
Aug 12, 7:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	90 min
Aug 12, 9:22 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	113 min
Aug 12, 11:03 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt	117 min
Aug 13, 12:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	McKinley	26 min
Aug 13, 12:53 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	McKinley	112 min
Aug 13, 1:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	McKinley	114 min
Aug 13, 1:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Sandoval	119 min
Aug 13, 1:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ		33 min
Aug 13, 1:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Lincoln, Socorro	2 hr
Aug 13, 2:16 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Santa Fe	119 min
Aug 13, 2:54 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval	3 hr
Aug 13, 3:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Colfax	3 hr
Aug 13, 3:35 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	25 min
Aug 13, 3:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	37 min

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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.