Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1994, 1:03 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 1994, 1:03 PM MDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1994, 2:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colfax County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 1958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KABQ 091904 RRA SVRABQ NMC007-092000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 103 PM MDT MON MAY 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE...... IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...WESTERN COLFAX COUNTY AT 100 PM MDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWESTERN PORTION OF COLFAX COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHWARD AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 9, 11:20 AM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
NMZALL-092345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1120 AM MDT MON MAY 9 1994 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... MOISTURE FROM THE EAST WAS WORKING ITS WAY INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO LATE THIS MORNING WITH MOISTURE VALUES ALSO INCREASING SOMEWHAT IN THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE STATE. IN ADDITION...AN UNSEASONABLY COLD UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA WAS NEARLY STATIONARY OVER ARIZONA WITH DISTURBANCES ROTATING AROUND THE LOW BRUSHING ACROSS NEW MEXICO. THE COMBINATION OF INCREASING MOISTURE AND THE UPPER DISTURBANCES MAKING THE AIR MORE UNSTABLE IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE BEST CHANCE OVER THE NORTH AND EAST AND THE LEAST CHANCE IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER WHERE MOISTURE LEVELS ARE THE LOWEST. OVER THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND NORTH SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ON THE EASTERN PLAINS...WHERE MOISTURE LEVELS ARE THE HIGHEST...SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. RESIDENTS OR TRAVELERS ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED OR THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. MJF
Special weather statement, May 9, 11:21 AM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
NMZALL-092345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1120 AM MDT MON MAY 9 1994 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... MOISTURE FROM THE EAST WAS WORKING ITS WAY INTO EASTERN NEW MEXICO LATE THIS MORNING WITH MOISTURE VALUES ALSO INCREASING SOMEWHAT IN THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE STATE. IN ADDITION...AN UNSEASONABLY COLD UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA WAS NEARLY STATIONARY OVER ARIZONA WITH DISTURBANCES ROTATING AROUND THE LOW BRUSHING ACROSS NEW MEXICO. THE COMBINATION OF INCREASING MOISTURE AND THE UPPER DISTURBANCES MAKING THE AIR MORE UNSTABLE IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE BEST CHANCE OVER THE NORTH AND EAST AND THE LEAST CHANCE IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER WHERE MOISTURE LEVELS ARE THE LOWEST. OVER THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND NORTH SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ON THE EASTERN PLAINS...WHERE MOISTURE LEVELS ARE THE HIGHEST...SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. RESIDENTS OR TRAVELERS ACROSS EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED OR THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. MJF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 12:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 47 min |
| May 9, 2:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 66 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.