A microburst from a thunderstorm that moved over Socorro produced isolated strong wind gusts up to an estimated 70mph. The metal roof was torn off the Socorro County annex building on Neel Street.
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A microburst from a thunderstorm that moved over Socorro produced isolated strong wind gusts up to an estimated 70mph. The metal roof was torn off the Socorro County annex building on Neel Street. The burglar alarm activated as the roof tore off alerting emergency management staff to the damaged structure.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 28, 10:57 AM MST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1157 AM MDT SUN JUL 28 2013 .AVIATION... 18Z TAF CYCLE VFR CONDITIONS LIKELY TO PERSIST THROUGH THE NEXT 24 HRS EXCEPT FOR SHRA AND TSRA. STRONGER TSRA WILL BE ABLE TO PRODUCE BRIEF MVFR CIGS AND VSBY WITH THE MOST INTENSE PRODUCING LOCALIZED IFR CIGS AND VSBY AND MT OBSCURATIONS. PEAK WIND GUSTS WITH THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY COULD REACH 40 TO 50 KT. GREATEST TSRA COVERAGE ACROSS CNTRL MOUNTAIN CHAIN WITH NUMEROUS CELLS. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED COVERAGE ELSEWHERE. FOR THE TAFS...CARRIED A TEMPO GROUP FOR GUSTY STORMS THIS PM/EARLY EVE FOR ALL EXCEPT KTCC AND KROW. ONLY VCTS THIS EVE AT KTCC AND VCSH KROW. THE ACTIVITY WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH AFTER 01Z WITH MOST OF THE CONVECTION OVER BY 06Z. 40 && .PREV DISCUSSION...724 AM MDT SUN JUL 28 2013... AFTER REVIEWING THE 12Z KABQ SOUNDING AND VARIOUS OTHER MODEL PARAMETERS HAVE DECIDED TO ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR BASICALLY THE WESTERN HALF OF NM. SURFACE DEWPOINT VALUES ARE ABOUT AS HIGH AS THEY EVER GET AROUND CENTRAL AND WESTERN NM. THE ENTIRE ATMOSPHERIC COLUMN IS ESSENTIALLY SATURATED AND OUR PWAT VALUE OF 1.27 THIS MORNING IS WELL WITHIN FLASH FLOOD TERRITORY. INSTABILITY IS ABUNDANT AND OUR CONVECTIVE TEMP IS QUITE LOW SO CONVECTION SHOULD FIRE EARLY THEN SPREAD SLOWLY EAST NEAR 10MPH. A WELL DEFINED GRADIENT OF DRIER AIR AND A COUPLE ASSCD SHORTWAVE TROUGHS WILL BE WORKING INTO THE REGION FROM THE WEST BY LATE DAY. PREVIOUS RESEARCH STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THIS IS A PARTICULARLY IDEAL SET UP FOR FLASH FLOOD EVENTS ACROSS NM. BASED ON THE 06Z NAM AND THE 10Z HRRR NOT ALL AREAS WILL BE UNDER THE GUN FOR FLOODING IN THE WATCH AREA HOWEVER IT IS TOO DIFFICULT TO PINPOINT FAVORED LOCALES SO THIS WATCH IS LARGE. GUYER .PREV DISCUSSION...337 AM MDT SUN JUL 28 2013... ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ON TAP FOR NEW MEXICO ONCE AGAIN TODAY... SEVERAL VERY INTERESTING FEATURES AT PLAY TODAY WILL DEFINITELY MAKE FOR A MORE ACTIVE DAY THAN SATURDAY. THE LATEST WATER VAPOR AND CIRA BLENDED PW LOOPS SHOW A DEEPLY SATURATED ATMOSPHERE ENTRENCHED OVER AZ AND NM. THE UPPER RIDGE CENTROID IS CLEARLY CENTERED OVER EL PASO. A WELL DEFINED VORT MAX OVER SOUTHEASTERN AZ IS SLIDING NE ALONG THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF THE UPPER RIDGE. MEANWHILE AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE AREA OF UPPER LEVEL INSTABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH AN UPPER SHORTWAVE TROUGH STRETCHES FROM WESTERN AZ ENE INTO THE FOUR CORNERS REGION AND SOUTHERN CO. SHOWERS AND STORMS HAVE BEEN ONGOING ACROSS BOTH OF THESE AREAS ALL NIGHT. THE 06Z AND LATEST HRRR HANDLE BOTH FEATURES VERY WELL. GUIDANCE ALSO FALLS IN LINE WITH LATEST HPC QPF PROBABILITIES SO HAVE NUDGED POPS UP QUITE A BIT TODAY. CONVECTIVE TEMPS INDICATED BY THE 06Z NAM OVER THE REGION ARE VERY LOW SO CONFIDENCE IS HIGH THAT CONVECTION WILL FIRE UP EARLY OVER WESTERN NM AND SHIFT EAST INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY BY EARLY AFTERNOON. THE VORT MAX LOOKS TO CROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL MTS BY MID AFTERNOON AND INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING OVER THE BURN SCARS WITHIN LINCOLN COUNTY. THE NORTH WILL ALSO FIRE UP EARLY BUT CONTINUE LATER INTO THE EVENING AS STRONGER UPPER DYNAMICS PUSH SLOWLY SOUTHEAST OVER THE AREA. SOME TRAINING IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THIS AREA WHERE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY. THE FARMINGTON AREA REALLY NEEDS THE RAIN AND TODAY SHOULD BE THE DAY. THE DRYING TREND WILL COMMENCE MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS DRIER AIR FILTERS INTO THE REGION FROM THE GREAT BASIN. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR STORMS WILL BE OVER THE NORTHERN HIGH TERRAIN WHERE MOISTURE RECYCLING WILL BE MOST EFFICIENT. THE NE PLAINS WILL ALSO HAVE ELEVATED POPS AS A WEAK BACK DOOR FRONTAL BOUNDARY SHIFTS SW INTO THE AREA. TUESDAY MAY BE THE DRIEST DAY IN QUITE SOME TIME WITH MODEL GUIDANCE INDICATING DEWPOINT VALUES RANGING FROM THE UPPER 20S ACROSS THE FAR NW PLATEAU TO THE 40S OVER THE PLAINS. THE UPPER HIGH WILL BUILD NORTHWEST OVER THE STATE AND STRENGTHEN TO NEAR 596DM BY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THIS WILL INCREASE TEMPS BACK SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL AND REALLY FOCUS MOISTURE RECYCLING PROCESSES IN AND IMMEDIATELY NEARBY THE HIGH TERRAIN WITH WEAK STEERING FLOW. FLASH FLOOD THREAT MAY INCREASE ONCE AGAIN FOR BURN SCAR AREAS IN THIS PATTERN. A STATIONARY PATTERN IS INDICATED BY THE GFS AND ECMWF SOLUTION THURSDAY THROUGH NEXT WEEK WITH AN UPPER HIGH OVER WEST TX/ EASTERN NM AND A MOISTURE SURGE SLIDING NORTH OVER WESTERN NM. THIS WILL BE A MUCH NEEDED WINDOW FOR PRECIP ACROSS THE GALLUP/FARMINGTON AREA WHICH HAS BEEN RELATIVELY PARCHED THIS SUMMER. GUYER && .FIRE WEATHER... WX PATTERN CHANGE BEGAN SAT AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT SHIFTED OVER TO FAR N MEXICO WHICH IN TURN EASED OUR STORM STEERING FLOW FROM A GENERALLY N TO S DIRECTION TO A MORE W TO E DIRECTION. THIS WILL...MAINLY AFTER TODAY...BRING IN SIGNIFICANTLY DRIER AIR ALOFT WHICH WILL OF COURSE SIGNIFICANTLY CUT BACK SFC DEWPOINTS AND ALSO CONVECTION. THIS STORM DOWNTURN WILL LAST AT LEAST INTO TUE AND MORE THAN LIKELY WED AS WELL...IF NOT LONGER. WHILE A LITTLE DRIER AIR MAY BEGIN TO PUSH INTO WESTERN NEW MEXICO LATER TODAY...THERE SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT AMOUNTS REMAINING TO TRIGGER A DECENT CROP OF SHOWERS AND STORMS. IT APPEARS THAT BEST CHANCES FOR SUBSTANTIAL RAINFALL TODAY WILL BE NORTHERN MTNS AND PERHAPS A LITTLE LESSER DEGREE THE SANDIAS SOUTHWARD TO THE SACRAMENTOS AS WELL AS THE NE PLAINS WHERE A WEAK SFC BOUNDARY MAY LINGER. WESTERLY WINDS WILL LIKELY BECOME SOMEWHAT GUSTY ALONG THE CONTDVD AND ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS/WESTERN EAST CENTRAL PLAINS THIS AFTN BUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE SCOURED OUT SO MUCH THAT MIN RH VALUES FALL BELOW 15 PERCENT. VENTILATION WILL IMPROVE SIGNIFICANTLY THIS AFTN. DRYING TREND ACCELERATES MON WITH ONLY ISOLD CONVECTION IN THE FORECAST FOR WESTERN AND SOUTHERN HIGH TERRAIN. WETTING RAIN STILL IN CHANCE CATEGORY FROM THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MTS EASTWARD TO THE TX BORDER...THOUGH NEARLY ALL AREAS OF N AND CENTRAL NM TO SEE FURTHER REDUCTIONS IN WETTING RAIN COVERAGE AND POTENTIAL TUE AS DRYING TREND MAY REACH ITS PEAK. VENTILATION WILL BE VERY GOOD TO EXCELLENT FOR MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA. BOTH MIN AND MAX RH VALUES TREND DOWNWARD AFFECTING OVERNIGHT RECOVERIES MON AND TUE NIGHT...ESPEC IN THE NORTHWEST PLATEAU AND PORTIONS OF THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. STILL FAIRLY GOOD MODEL AGREEMENT ON A TREND OF MOISTURE RETURNING DURING THE LATTER HALF NEXT WEEK AS THE UPPER HIGH CENTER SHIFTS NORTHWARD OUT OF OLD MEXICO. THE FOCUS FOR WETTING RAIN WOULD APPEAR TO BE THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE FCST AREA...BEARING A LITTLE MORE RESEMBLANCE TO A TRADITIONAL MONSOON PATTERN...THOUGH NOT AN ESPECIALLY STRONG ONE JUST YET. 43 && .ABQ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 10 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING ZONES...NMZ501>529. && 40
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 551 AM MDT SUN JUL 28 2013 NMZ501>540-291200- 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- 551 AM MDT SUN JUL 28 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS LIKELY TODAY FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP EARLY IN THE DAY OVER NORTHERN AND WESTERN NEW MEXICO AND THEN SPREAD EAST ALONG THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN AND RIO GRANDE VALLEY BY EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON. LOCALIZED AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY FOR RECENTLY BURNED FORESTS ACROSS NORTHERN NEW MEXICO AND ACROSS LINCOLN COUNTY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL DECREASE SUBSTANTIALLY OVER THE AREA MONDAY AND TUESDAY. SOME HIGHLY LOCALIZED AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL ARE STILL POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND THE NORTHEAST PLAINS. THE COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL THEN INCREASE ONCE AGAIN FOR CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEW MEXICO FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS AND ANY FLOODING THROUGH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/ABQ OR BY CALLING 1.888.386.7637. GUYER
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:55 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The metal roof of the Socorro County annex building was partially peeled off and significantly damaged.
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