Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 30 min |
| Jun 20, 7:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 8:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 42 min |
| Jun 20, 9:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 11:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Harding | 34 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.