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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 20, 2012Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2012, 7:00 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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 20, 2012, 7:00 PM MDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 2012, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 211 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 240 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2012-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 2012-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
5318 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 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.

207 
WUUS55 KABQ 210100
SVRABQ
NMC007-210200-
/O.NEW.KABQ.SV.W.0113.120621T0100Z-120621T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
700 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 654 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY...OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPRINGER...
  AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3662 10460 3644 10482 3669 10500 3677 10491
TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 311DEG 11KT 3667 10488

$$
1 follow-up statement
040 
WWUS55 KABQ 210124
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
724 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2012

NMC007-210200-
/O.CON.KABQ.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-120621T0200Z/
COLFAX-
724 PM MDT WED JUN 20 2012

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL COLFAX
COUNTY UNTIL 800 PM MDT...

AT 718 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF DOLLAR SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED OVER CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF 
CIMARRON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. 

THIS STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 64 NORTHEAST OF CIMARRON AROUND 730 PM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL COLFAX COUNTY...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&&

LAT...LON 3664 10496 3672 10481 3662 10460 3644 10482
TIME...MOT...LOC 0122Z 311DEG 11KT 3663 10482

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 7:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora30 min
Jun 20, 7:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax50 min
Jun 20, 8:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax42 min
Jun 20, 9:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax31 min
Jun 20, 11:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQHarding34 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.