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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 29, 1995Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1995, 4:43 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1995, 4:43 PM MDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1995, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Guadalupe County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1995-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1995-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-310 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 292245 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC019-292345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
443 PM MDT THU JUN 29 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE......
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 
   ...NORTHWESTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY
 
AT 440 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM
5 MILES NORTH OF DILIA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST
AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST GUADALUPE COUNTY BY
500 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEAdDLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 2:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLos Alamos, Sandoval, Santa Fe49 min
Jun 29, 3:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSanta Fe68 min
Jun 29, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance65 min
Jun 29, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSanta Fe60 min
Jun 29, 4:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.