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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 29, 1996Bernalillo County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1996, 4:04 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report 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
Aug 29, 1996, 4:04 PM MDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 1996, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Bernalillo County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 29, 4:35 PM MDTHail 1.25Albuquerque, 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 6 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 12:00Z on 1996-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 749 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1996-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
749 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Aug 29, 10:12 AM MDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 29, 12:03 PM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-301200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO
100 PM CDT THU AUG 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
.

...ISOLATED SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM STILL POSSIBLE...

DRIER AIR HAS CONTINUED TO FILTER INTO MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST
KANSAS LOWERING DEW POINTS AND HUMIDITY LEVELS.  THE WEATHER PATTERN
HAS NOT CHANGED OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS AND NO CHANGE IS EXPECTED AS
ALL MAJOR FRONTS REMAIN WELL AWAY FROM THE REGION.

JUST AS IN PAST DAYS...CUMULUS CLOUDS WILL BUILD THIS AFTERNOON AND
THERE REMAINS A VERY SLIGHT CHANCE THAT A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM
COULD DEVELOP. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THIS HAPPENING WILL BE ACROSS
CENTRAL MISSOURI.

ANY SHOWER OR STORM THAT MIGHT DEVELOP WILL NOT BE SEVERE.  THUS SPOTTER
ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.

RIDDLE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 12:49 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQMcKinley, Sandoval61 min
Aug 29, 12:49 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMcKinley, Sandoval61 min
Aug 29, 4:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo3 hr
Aug 29, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo3 hr
Aug 29, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.