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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 31, 1992Colfax County, New Mexico

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 31, 5:46 PM MDTHail 1.75Colfax, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.