Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 7:14 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 min. 3 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
- Jun 2, 1996, 7:14 PM MDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1996, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Roosevelt County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:17 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Milnesand, NM | |
| Jun 2, 7:23 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Milnesand, NM | |
| Jun 2, 8:13 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Rogers, 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 839 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 030115 SVRABQ NMC041-030215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 714 PM MDT SUN JUN 2 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...ROOSEVELT COUNTY AT 712 PM RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF ROGERS AND MILNESAND. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... 4AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 7:40 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Quay, San Miguel | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 8:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 8:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 9:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 25 min |
| Jun 2, 9:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 69 min |
| Jun 2, 9:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 10:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 68 min |
| Jun 2, 10:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 11:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 11:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 68 min |
| Jun 3, 1:16 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 1:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 1:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 1:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 68 min |
| Jun 3, 1:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Union | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 2:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 2:29 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Union | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 2:34 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Harding | 26 min |
| Jun 3, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 27 min |
| Jun 3, 2:57 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 33 min |
| Jun 3, 3:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 67 min |
| Jun 3, 3:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 68 min |
| Jun 3, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 55 min |
| Jun 3, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 62 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.