Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1990, 3:49 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, Santa Fe County, Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 86 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 1990, 3:49 PM MDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 1990, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM, Torrance County, NM
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 4:10 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Bernalillo, NM |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 2548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 12, 3:36 PM MDT, 13 minutes before
NMZALL-082345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 335 PM MDT SUN AUG 12 1990 WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER PARTS OF NEW MEXICO. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WERE NEAR SPRINGER AND CLINES CORNERS. UPPER AIR WINDS A LIGHT...SO THIS AFTERNOON`S THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING VERY SLOWLY. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND EVEN SOME HAIL. PEOPLE...ESPECIALLY THOSE IN NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. LV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 3:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Santa Fe, Torrance | 116 min |
| Aug 12, 4:12 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 2 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.