Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1992, 5:39 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 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
- May 31, 1992, 5:39 PM MDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1992, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colfax County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:46 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Colfax, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 981 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 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, May 31, 1:29 PM MDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
NMZALL-AZZALL-UTZ008-011-COZ003>010-015>017-TXZ050-052-312030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 130 PM MDT SUN MAY 31 1992 TORNADO WATCTH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR UNION AND EASTERN HARDING COUNTIES... AT 130 PM MDT...IN NEW MEXICO...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED BETWEEN RATON AND SPRINGER...ALSO IN THE SOUTH...TO THE SOUTHWEST OF SOCORRO. NO MOVEMENT DETERMINED AT THIS TIME.
Special weather statement, May 31, 2:30 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
NMZALL-AZZALL-UTZ008-011-COZ003>010-015>017-TXZ050-052-312130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 230 PM MDT SUN MAY 31 1992 TORNADO WATCTH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR UNION AND EASTERN HARDING COUNTIES... AT 230 PM MDT...IN NEW MEXICO...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ISOLATED HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS...WERE BETWEEN NAVAJO LAKE AND RATON. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN GALLUP...SOCORRO AND CORONA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:29 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
NMZALL-AZZALL-UTZ008-011-COZ003>010-015>017-TXZ050-052-312230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 330 PM MDT SUN MAY 31 1992 TORNADO WATCTH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT FOR UNION AND EASTERN HARDING COUNTIES... AT 330 PM MDT...IN NEW MEXICO...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ISOLATED HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS...WERE OVER THE NORTH CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...ALSO IN THE VICINITY OF GRANTS...SOCORRO...CORONA AND WEST OF FT. SUMNER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SOUTHERN COLORADO...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS...WERE IN THE VICINITY OF ALAMOSA AND PAGOSA SPRINGS.
Special weather statement, May 31, 4:34 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
NMZALL-AZZALL-UTZ008-011-COZ003>010-015>017-TXZ050-052-312330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 435 PM MDT SUN MAY 31 1992 TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM MDT FOR UNION AND EASTERN HARDING COUNTIES... AT 430 PM MDT...IN NEW MEXICO...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER THE NORTHEAST...EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PLAINS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NORTH OF FORT SUMNER. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE OVER THE NORTH AND WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE SOUTH OF SOCORRO AND JUST EAST OF GRANTS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IN SOUTHERN COLORADO...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS....A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED NEAR PAGOSA SPRINGS...TRINIDAD AND WALSENBURG. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IN ARIZONA...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS WERE OVER THE MOGOLLON RIM AND EAST CENTRAL BASINS BETWEEN FLAGSTAFF... WINSLOW AND FORT APACHE. NO MOVEMENT HAD BEEN DETERMINED.
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.