Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1996, 4:53 PM MDT for Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 67 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
- Aug 29, 1996, 4:53 PM MDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1996, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sandoval County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 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
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, 12:03 PM MDT, 4 hours 50 minutes 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
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 4:23 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
NMZ009-292330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 425 PM MDT THU AUG 29 1996 AT 415 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE ALBUQUERQUE FOOTHILLS. SEVERAL REPORTS WERE RECEIVED FROM OBSERVERS AND RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA FROM SHORTLY AFTER 4 PM TO 415 PM. THESE REPORTS INCLUDE 13/8 INCH HAIL AT JUAN TABO AND INDIAN SCHOOL AT 415PM. QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 410 PM AT TRAMWAY AND INDIAN SCHOOL. ALSO BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS HAVE ACCOMPANIED THIS STORM. THIS RAIN WILL QUICKLY RUN INTO NEARBY ARROYOS CAUSING QUICK AND DANGEROUS RISES. ALSO LOCALIZED STREET FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 12:49 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | McKinley, Sandoval | 61 min |
| Aug 29, 12:49 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | McKinley, Sandoval | 61 min |
| Aug 29, 4:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 4:40 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.