Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2012, 4:11 PM MDT for Colfax County, Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 2012, 4:11 PM MDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2012, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Colfax County, NM, Mora County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 215 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 5:01 PM MDT | HAIL 1.5 | 8 Ssw Springer, NM | PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL ON INTERSTATE 25 |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 21, 2:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
446
WUUS55 KABQ 212211
SVRABQ
NMC007-033-212315-
/O.NEW.KABQ.SV.W.0039.120521T2211Z-120521T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
411 PM MDT MON MAY 21 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
NORTHEASTERN MORA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
* UNTIL 515 PM MDT
* AT 406 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 13
MILES WEST OF SPRINGER...AND MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SPRINGER...
MAXWELL...
THIS WILL IMPACT INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 403 AND 426...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN ALBUQUERQUE.
&&
LAT...LON 3656 10448 3637 10442 3618 10452 3623 10470
3634 10491 3648 10485
TIME...MOT...LOC 2210Z 276DEG 7KT 3640 10481
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 1:48 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 27 min |
| May 21, 2:18 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Chaves | 27 min |
| May 21, 2:33 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 42 min |
| May 21, 4:36 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan | 11 hr |
| May 21, 4:36 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 6 more | 11 hr |
| May 21, 12:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 34 min |
| May 21, 1:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Los Alamos | 28 min |
| May 21, 1:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 38 min |
| May 21, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe | 60 min |
| May 21, 1:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 42 min |
| May 21, 2:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 59 min |
| May 21, 2:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Union | 60 min |
| May 21, 2:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Torrance | 36 min |
| May 21, 2:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 37 min |
| May 21, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 60 min |
| May 21, 3:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 27 min | |
| May 21, 3:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Colfax | 24 min |
| May 21, 3:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 64 min |
| May 21, 3:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 61 min |
| May 21, 3:29 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan | 29 hr |
| May 21, 3:29 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 6 more | 56 hr |
| May 21, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Torrance | 59 min |
| May 21, 4:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Miguel | 43 min |
| May 21, 4:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | San Miguel | 41 min |
| May 21, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 51 min |
| May 21, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 34 min |
| May 21, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora | 65 min |
| May 21, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 48 min |
| May 21, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 54 min |
| May 21, 5:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Quay | 48 min |
| May 21, 5:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Harding | 28 min |
| May 21, 5:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 117 min |
| May 21, 5:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Quay | 51 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.