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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 12, 2012Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2012, 5:36 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 24 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, 5:36 PM MDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Chaves County, NM

The radar

The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 2:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 182 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, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2012-06-12Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Santa Teresa, NM at 12:00Z on 2012-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
5390 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 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.

760 
WUUS55 KABQ 122336
SVRABQ
NMC005-130000-
/O.NEW.KABQ.SV.W.0089.120612T2336Z-120613T0000Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CHAVES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 600 PM MDT

* AT 536 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL...
  AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED
  OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CHAVES COUNTY...OR ABOUT 36 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF ARTESIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CHAVES COUNTY...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3255 10511 3273 10507 3270 10483 3252 10483
      3251 10485 3251 10493
TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 281DEG 14KT 3262 10498

$$


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1 follow-up statement
597 
WWUS55 KABQ 130001
SVSABQ

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

NMC005-130011-
/O.EXP.KABQ.SV.W.0089.000000T0000Z-120613T0000Z/
CHAVES-
601 PM MDT TUE JUN 12 2012

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR SOUTHWESTERN CHAVES
COUNTY...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN
ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

HOWEVER...HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL 
POSSIBLE NEAR THE CHAVES EDDY COUNTY LINE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

LAT...LON 3255 10511 3273 10507 3270 10483 3252 10483
      3251 10485 3251 10493
TIME...MOT...LOC 2336Z 281DEG 14KT 3262 10498

$$


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 10:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQSan Miguel29 min
Jun 11, 11:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay29 min
Jun 12, 1:31 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay29 min
Jun 12, 2:07 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQQuay38 min
Jun 12, 2:11 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ34 min
Jun 12, 2:17 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay43 min
Jun 12, 2:37 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Quay, San Miguel38 min
Jun 12, 3:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel60 min
Jun 12, 4:14 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt31 min
Jun 12, 4:47 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQCurry43 min
Jun 12, 1:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora48 min
Jun 12, 1:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQColfax46 min
Jun 12, 2:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora46 min
Jun 12, 2:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax43 min
Jun 12, 2:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union31 min
Jun 12, 3:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union15 min
Jun 12, 3:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax45 min
Jun 12, 3:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQTaos65 min
Jun 12, 3:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax46 min
Jun 12, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTaos49 min
Jun 12, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax45 min
Jun 12, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Union44 min
Jun 12, 5:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ33 min
Jun 12, 5:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQGuadalupe30 min
Jun 12, 5:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQMora44 min
Jun 12, 5:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQUnion50 min
Jun 12, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe49 min
Jun 12, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Mora54 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.