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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 30, 1995Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1995, 1:55 PM MDT for Socorro County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 1995, 1:55 PM MDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1995, 3:00 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Socorro County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 1995-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 14 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 1995-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 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
14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 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 301958 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC053-302100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
155 PM MDT FRI JUN 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE......
 
IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO
 
   ...SOCORRO COUNTY
 
AT 155 PM MDT ALBUQUERQUE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING SOUTHEAST INTO SOCORRO COUNTY. THE STORM IS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS
OVER 60 MPH ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL AND INTENSE RAINFALL.
PERSONS TRAVELING ALONG INTERSTATE 25 SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THIS DANGEROUS STORM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGH
T OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY 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, 6:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance57 min
Jun 30, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSierra62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.