Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2014, 4:53 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2014, 4:53 PM MDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2014, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 898 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Albuquerque, NM wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 30, 3:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 3:12 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 5:31 AM MDT, 11 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 531 AM MDT MON JUN 30 2014 NMZ501>540-011200- NORTHWEST PLATEAU-CHUSKA MOUNTAINS-FAR NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS- NORTHWEST HIGHLANDS-WEST CENTRAL PLATEAU-WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS- WEST CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS- SAN FRANCISCO RIVER VALLEY-SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS-JEMEZ MOUNTAINS- WEST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS- NORTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 9500 FEET/RED RIVER- SOUTHERN SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS ABOVE 9500 FEET- EAST SLOPES SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS-UPPER RIO GRANDE VALLEY- LOWER CHAMA RIVER VALLEY-SANTA FE METRO AREA-ALBUQUERQUE METRO AREA- LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY-SANDIA/MANZANO MOUNTAINS-ESTANCIA VALLEY- CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-UPPER TULAROSA VALLEY- SOUTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-RATON RIDGE/JOHNSON MESA- FAR NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS-UNION COUNTY- HARDING COUNTY-EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY-GUADALUPE COUNTY- QUAY COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY-ROOSEVELT COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY- CHAVES COUNTY PLAINS-EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY-SOUTHWEST CHAVES COUNTY- 531 AM MDT MON JUN 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. HOWEVER... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY...AND MOST WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY STRONG AND GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. BY TONIGHT...A VIGOROUS BACK DOOR COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE EASTERN PLAINS AND EVENTUALLY INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. SOME STRONG WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 40 TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG AND BEHIND THE FRONT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MUCH MORE NUMEROUS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY IN THE WAKE OF THE AFOREMENTIONED BACK DOOR COLD FRONT. SOME SLOW-MOVING THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IN SOME AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY STRONG WIND GUSTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE AT 1.888.386.7637 OR VIA THE WEB AT WEATHER.GOV/ABQ. YOU CAN ALSO SUBMIT WEATHER REPORTS OR PHOTOS TO THE ALBUQUERQUE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FACEBOOK PAGE OR VIA TWITTER USING THE HASHTAG N M W X. 52
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 4:41 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
441 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2014
NMZ533>537-302315-
CURRY COUNTY-DE BACA COUNTY-GUADALUPE COUNTY-QUAY COUNTY-ROOSEVELT
COUNTY-
441 PM MDT MON JUN 30 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EXTREME NORTHWESTERN ROOSEVELT...
SOUTHWESTERN QUAY...EXTREME EASTERN GUADALUPE...NORTHEASTERN DE BACA
AND WESTERN CURRY COUNTIES THROUGH 515 PM MDT...
AT 440 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF RAGLAND TO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF
HOUSE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY.
AREAS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...RAGLAND...HOUSE...FORREST
AND MCALISTER.
BLOWING DUST ASSOCIATED WITH STRONG THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REDUCE
VISIBILITIES BELOW ONE MILE AT TIMES.
&&
LAT...LON 3469 10335 3452 10367 3452 10418 3488 10418
3498 10359
TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 316DEG 8KT 3489 10362 3479 10404
34The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 4:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry | 34 min |
| Jun 30, 5:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Curry | 25 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.