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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 6, 2012Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2012, 6:59 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 31 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 6, 2012, 6:59 PM MDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2012, 7:30 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 264 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: 402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

815 
WUUS55 KABQ 070059
SVRABQ
NMC059-070130-
/O.NEW.KABQ.SV.W.0071.120607T0059Z-120607T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
659 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 730 PM MDT

* AT 656 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 6 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF FOLSOM...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF DES MOINES...AND
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  PORTIONS OF STATE ROUTES 456 AND 551...
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN UNION COUNTY...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3682 10400 3699 10400 3700 10358 3683 10352
      3669 10395
TIME...MOT...LOC 0058Z 334DEG 11KT 3689 10382

$$

SHOEMAKE

1 follow-up statement

079 
WWUS55 KABQ 070118
SVSABQ

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
718 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012

NMC059-070130-
/O.CON.KABQ.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-120607T0130Z/
UNION-
718 PM MDT WED JUN 6 2012

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN
UNION COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM MDT...

AT 715 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF DES MOINES...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT...
  PORTIONS OF STATE ROUTES 456 AND 551...
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN UNION 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 3682 10400 3699 10400 3700 10358 3683 10352
      3669 10395
TIME...MOT...LOC 0117Z 334DEG 11KT 3684 10379

$$

SHOEMAKE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 6:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	41 min
Jun 6, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Union	45 min
Jun 6, 7:44 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Union	2 hr
Jun 6, 9:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	44 min
Jun 6, 10:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	60 min
Jun 6, 10:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	42 min
Jun 6, 10:57 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	2 hr
Jun 6, 11:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	ABQ	Colfax	2 hr
Jun 6, 11:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Colfax	58 min
Jun 7, 12:29 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Colfax	46 min
Jun 7, 1:17 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	ABQ	Union	43 min
Jun 7, 3:57 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	ABQ	Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Harding, McKinley, Rio Arriba and 6 more	17 hr

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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.