Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM
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.
- 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
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
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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.