Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2015, 4:00 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 17, 2015, 4:00 PM MDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2015, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Union County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
457
WUUS55 KABQ 172200
SVRABQ
NMC059-172230-
/O.NEW.KABQ.SV.W.0252.150817T2200Z-150817T2230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
400 PM MDT MON AUG 17 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN UNION COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 430 PM MDT
* AT 400 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DES
MOINES...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
NORTHWESTERN UNION COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE
IN ALBUQUERQUE AT 1.888.386.7637.
&&
LAT...LON 3679 10388 3690 10382 3681 10349 3661 10363
TIME...MOT...LOC 2200Z 289DEG 7KT 3680 10374
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
SHOEMAKE1 follow-up statement
022
WWUS55 KABQ 172217 RRA
SVSABQ
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
417 PM MDT MON AUG 17 2015
NMC059-172230-
/O.CON.KABQ.SV.W.0252.000000T0000Z-150817T2230Z/
UNION-
417 PM MDT MON AUG 17 2015
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM MDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN UNION COUNTY...
AT 417 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF DES
MOINES...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DES MOINES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
ALBUQUERQUE AT 1.888.386.7637.
&&
LAT...LON 3675 10383 3685 10378 3681 10349 3661 10363
TIME...MOT...LOC 2217Z 289DEG 7KT 3679 10370
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
SHOEMAKEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 6:05 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 115 min |
| Aug 16, 6:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 33 min |
| Aug 16, 7:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Quay | 37 min |
| Aug 17, 12:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Taos | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 12:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Taos | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 1:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba, Taos | 34 min |
| Aug 17, 1:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 1:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Rio Arriba | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 2:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 45 min |
| Aug 17, 2:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 2:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Mora | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 3:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 28 min |
| Aug 17, 3:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 112 min |
| Aug 17, 3:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Bernalillo | 36 min |
| Aug 17, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 28 min |
| Aug 17, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 4:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Lincoln | 36 min |
| Aug 17, 4:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Union | 110 min |
| Aug 17, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, San Miguel | 25 min |
| Aug 17, 4:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Union | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 40 min |
| Aug 17, 4:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Torrance | 32 min |
| Aug 17, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 5:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | Guadalupe | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 5:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | Union | 114 min |
| Aug 17, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 5:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | De Baca | 31 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.