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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 12, 2012Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2012, 10:43 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 34 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: Jun 12, 2012, 10:43 PM MDT (04:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2012, 11:17 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Roosevelt County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:46 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 12, 2:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 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.

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: 1015 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

721 
WUUS55 KABQ 130443
SVRABQ
NMC041-130545-
/O.NEW.KABQ.SV.W.0104.120613T0443Z-120613T0545Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1043 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1145 PM MDT

* AT 1043 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  LINGO...OR ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTH OF PORTALES...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LINGO...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEVERE STORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. MOVE INDOORS AND
AVOID WINDOWS.

TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. TAKE
SHELTER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3356 10306 3356 10317 3379 10333 3394 10318
      3383 10303 3358 10305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0443Z 314DEG 19KT 3379 10317

$$


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2 follow-up statements

082 
WWUS55 KABQ 130501
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1101 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012

NMC041-130545-
/O.CON.KABQ.SV.W.0104.000000T0000Z-120613T0545Z/
ROOSEVELT-
1101 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
ROOSEVELT COUNTY UNTIL 1145 PM MDT...

AT 1101 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR LINGO...OR ABOUT 34 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PORTALES...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL ROOSEVELT COUNTY...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 3356 10306 3364 10318 3375 10320 3383 10314
      3383 10303 3358 10305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0501Z 314DEG 19KT 3372 10309

$$


34

382 
WWUS55 KABQ 130517
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1117 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012

NMC041-130527-
/O.CAN.KABQ.SV.W.0104.000000T0000Z-120613T0545Z/
ROOSEVELT-
1117 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012

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

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3356 10306 3364 10318 3375 10320 3383 10314
      3383 10303 3358 10305
TIME...MOT...LOC 0517Z 314DEG 19KT 3366 10302

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 6:13 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	47 min
Jun 12, 6:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt	46 min
Jun 12, 6:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	46 min
Jun 12, 7:05 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	40 min
Jun 12, 7:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	37 min
Jun 12, 7:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	46 min
Jun 12, 7:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, Union	44 min
Jun 12, 7:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Harding	45 min
Jun 12, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay, Roosevelt	48 min
Jun 12, 8:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	42 min
Jun 12, 8:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay, San Miguel	56 min
Jun 12, 8:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	62 min
Jun 12, 9:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	42 min
Jun 12, 9:06 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	39 min
Jun 12, 9:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay, San Miguel	40 min
Jun 12, 9:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	61 min
Jun 12, 9:51 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Roosevelt	39 min
Jun 12, 10:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	38 min
Jun 12, 11:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	61 min
Jun 13, 3:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Lincoln	27 min

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.