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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 7, 1995Harding County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 12:55 AM MDT for Harding County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1995, 12:55 AM MDT (06:55 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1995, 2:00 AM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Harding County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-07Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 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
3520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 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 070655
SVRABQ
NMC021-070800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
1255 AM MDT SUN MAY 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 AM MDT
FOR PEOPLE......
 
IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO
 
   ...HARDING COUNTY
 
AT 1250 AM MDT RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM
13 MILES SOUTH OF MOSQUERO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH
AT 35 MPH.
 
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 6, 9:42 PM MDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
NMZ002-004-071200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
945 PM MDT SAT MAY 6 1995

...SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY
   FOR THE NORTHCENTRAL MOUTAINS ABOVE 8000 FEET...

A STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER WESTERN ARIZONA WILL
MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO BY SUNDAY MORNING AND THEN MOVE INTO
WEST TEXAS LATE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING
MUCH COLDER AIR INTO WESTERN NEW MEXICO DURING THE NIGHT.  THE CHANCES
FOR SHOWER WILL BE INCREASING DURING THE NIGHT AND THE SNOW LEVEL WILL
GRADUALLY LOWER TO 7000 FEET BY MORNING.  ALTHOUGH THE GROUND HAS BEEN
WARMED OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS...ACCUMULATION OF 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL
BE POSSIBLE AT LOWER ELEVATION WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES
ABOVE 8000 FEET.  THUS A SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE
NORTHCENTRAL MOUNTAINS ABOVE 8000 FEET.  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF
CHAMA...RED RIVER AND ANGEL FIRE.

SNOW WAS REPORTED IN THE FLAGSTAFF AREA FOR MOST OF DAY...BUT ENDED
DURING THE EARLY EVENING HOURS.

THOSE PLANNING TRAVEL THROUGH THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS LATE TONIGHT
AND EARLY SUNDAY SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ICY AND SNOWPACKED ROADS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION
STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION CONCERNING THE
WINTER-LIKE STORM.

EBM

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.