Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1996, 4:29 PM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1996, 4:29 PM MDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1996, 5:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County De Baca County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 292228 SVRABQ NMC011-300030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 429 PM MDT MON JUL 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHWESTERN DE BACA COUNTY AT 425 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY ALBUQUERQUE DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF FORT SUMNER MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...YESO...EVANOLA AND RICARDO. HOURLY RAINFALL RATES UP TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS IS LIKELY NEAR AND SEVERAL MILES DOWNSTREAM FROM THE STORM/S PATH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Jul 29, 12:03 PM MDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-292355- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 100 PM CDT MON JUL 29 1996 THE FOLLOWING OUTLOOK CONTAINS INFORMATION FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KANSAS BOURBON CHEROKEE CRAWFORD IN SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL MISSOURI BARRY DALLAS LACLEDE OREGON STONE BARTON DENT LAWRENCE OZARK TANEY BENTON DOUGLAS MARIES PHELPS TEXAS CAMDEN GREENE MCDONALD POLK VERNON CEDAR HICKORY MILLER PULASKI WEBSTER CHRISTIAN HOWELL MORGAN SHANNON WRIGHT DADE JASPER NEWTON ST CLAIR ...MORE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT... A COLD FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY AND INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI AND KANSAS. THIS FRONT TRIGGERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS MORNING WHICH SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE ATMOSHPERE REMAINS UNSTABLE ALONG WITH WARM AND VERY HUMID CONDITIONS. THIS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP LATER THIS AFTER"NOON AND OVERNIGHT. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH STRONG WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND HAIL. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE CURRENT CONDITIONS FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER THIS EVENING. GH/DG
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 2:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
NMZ004-005-292300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 240 PM MDT MON JUL 29 1996 EXPECT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGH 500 PM IN TAOS COUNTY...SOUTHWEST COLFAX COUNTY...MORA COUNTY...AND SAN MIGUEL COUNTY. A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF TAOS THROUGH MORA TO NEAR CONCHAS DAM AT 215 PM. THIS COLD FRONT SHOULD SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR LOCALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON. SINCE 100 PM...RADAR REPORTS SUGGEST THAN ONE HOUR RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE INCH AND ONE-AND-ONE-HALF INCHES HAVE OCCURRED WITH THUNDERSTORMS JUST TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF QUESTA AND TAOS IN ADDITION TO AREAS NEAR MORA AND LAS VEGAS. SIMILAR RATES OF RAINFALL SHOULD OCCUR WITH STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. PERSONS IN TAOS COUNTY...SOUTHWEST COLFAX COUNTY...MORA COUNTY...AND SAN MIGUEL COUNTY SHOULD EXPECT LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINS...AND POSSIBLE FLOlODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON.
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:49 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
NMZ012-013-018-020-021-300030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 350 PM MDT MON JUL 29 1996 EXPECT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND SMALL HAIL THROUGH 630 PM IN GUADALUPE COUNTY...DE BACA COUNTY... QUAY COUNTY...CURRY COUNTY...AND NORTHERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY. A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM TAOS THROUGH MORA AND CONCHAS DAM TO NEAR GLENRIO AT 315 PM. THIS COLD FRONT SHOULD SERVE AS A FOCUS FOR LOCALLY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON ACROSS NEW MEXICO/S EASTCENTRAL PLAINS. SINCE 200 PM...RADAR REPORTS SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS BUILDING IN A BAND RUNNING ACROSS SOUTHERN GUADALUPE COUNTY...NORTHERN DE BACA COUNTY...AND SOUTHERN QUAY COUNTY. HOURLY RAINFALL RATES AROUND ONE INCH HAVE OCCURRED WITH THUNDERSTORMS JUST TO THE NORTHWEST OF SUMNER LAKE AND NEAR FORT SUMNER SINCE 200 PM. SIMILAR RATES OF RAINFALL SHOULD OCCUR THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS AS THE BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS DRIFTS TOWARDS THE SOUTH. PERSONS IN GUADALUPE COUNTY...DE BACA COUNTY...QUAY COUNTY...CURRY COUNTY...AND NORTHERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY SHOULD EXPECT LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL...AND POSSIBLE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND NORMALLY DRY ARROYOS THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 4:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 61 min |
| Jul 29, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.