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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 5, 1995Harding County, Mora County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 11:13 PM MDT for Harding County, Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1995, 11:13 PM MDT (05:13 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1995, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 224 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
3664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

Local storm report, May 5, 7:51 PM MDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
750 PM MDT FRI MAY 05 1995

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....  STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

 725 PM     CONCHAS LAKE            NM     3/4 TO 1 INCH HAIL.
 05/05/95   SAN MIGUEL

 0000 PM    CITY                    NM
 MM/DD/YY   COUNTY                         ***  0 DEAD,  0 INJ ***

 0000 PM    CITY                    NM
 MM/DD/YY   COUNTY                         ***  0 DEAD,  0 INJ ***

                     
Local storm report, May 5, 7:52 PM MDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
752 PM MDT FRI MAY 05 1995

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....  STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

 725 PM     CONCHAS LAKE*            NM     3/4 TO 1 INCH HAIL.
 05/05/95   SAN MIGUEL

KJ/EBM
Local storm report, May 5, 8:58 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
900 PM MDT FRI MAY 05 1995

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....  STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

 810 PM     CONCHAS LAKE            NM     1 TO 1 1/4 INCH HAIL
 05/05/95   SAN MIGUEL                     COVERED GROUND.

KJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel38 min
May 5, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax68 min
May 5, 7:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel46 min
May 5, 8:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax40 min
May 5, 9:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Mora32 min
May 5, 9:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax58 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.