Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 30, 1996Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1996, 7:07 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 1996, 7:07 PM MDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1996, 8:05 PM MDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

Counties Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 7:30 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Mc Alister, NM
May 30, 7:42 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Broadview, NM

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 310106
SVRABQ
NMC009-037-310205-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
707 PM MDT THU MAY 30 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 805 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

   ...NORTHERN CURRY COUNTY
   ...SOUTH CENTRAL QUAY COUNTY
 
AT 707 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY
CANNON AFB DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 25 MILES NORTHWEST
OF CLOVIS MOVING EAST AT 25-30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...FIELD...GRADY AND
BROADVIEW.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
KJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 6:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, San Miguel	60 min
May 30, 6:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	60 min
May 30, 6:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Harding, Quay	54 min
May 30, 7:52 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.