Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 112
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 21, 2018, 12:59 PM MDT for 12 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 2018, 12:59 PM MDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2018, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Cibola County, NM, Lincoln County, NM, Los Alamos County, NM, McKinley County, NM, Rio Arriba County, NM, Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Socorro County, NM, Taos County, NM, Torrance County, NM, Valencia County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval, Valencia | 39 min |
| May 21, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval, Santa Fe | 61 min |
| May 21, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 52 min |
| May 21, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Santa Fe, Torrance | 61 min |
| May 21, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Taos | 46 min |
| May 21, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance | 65 min |
| May 21, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Torrance | 53 min |
| May 21, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance | 43 min |
| May 21, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 66 min |
| May 21, 6:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln, Socorro, Torrance | 64 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 11:41 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Cibola, Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Sierra and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 21, 2:29 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Santa Fe and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 21, 4:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, De Baca, Doña Ana, Guadalupe and 13 more | 64 min |
| May 21, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chaves, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Otero, Torrance | 5 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.