Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 2:00 AM MDT for Guadalupe County, Quay County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 24, 1996, 2:00 AM MDT (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1996, 4:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Guadalupe County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 697 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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, Jul 23, 11:34 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
NMZ005-006-007-012-013-240630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1135 PM MDT TUE JUL 23 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED LATE THIS AFTERNOON FOR MOST OF NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EASTWARD INTO THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES. HOWEVER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE NORTHEAST HIGHLANDS AND THE NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL PLAINS UNTIL AROUND 3 AM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 80 min |
| Jul 23, 8:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 57 min |
| Jul 23, 9:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 56 min |
| Jul 23, 10:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 2:00 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Quay, San Miguel | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 67 min |
| Jul 24, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 68 min |
| Jul 24, 5:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Sandoval, Santa Fe | 67 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.