Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 5:33 PM MDT for Sandoval County, Santa Fe 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
- Jul 24, 1996, 5:33 PM MDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1996, 6:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Sandoval County, NM, Santa Fe County, NM
The radar
The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 375 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 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, Jul 24, 1:22 PM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-250600- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 120 PM MDT WED JUL 24 1996...CORRECTION SENT FOR DATE... THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NEW MEXICO: BERNALILLO GUADALUPE RIO ARRIBA SOCORRO CATRON HARDING ROOSEVELT TAOS CHAVES LINCOLN SANDOVAL TORRANCE CIBOLA LOS ALAMOS SAN JUAN QUAY COLFAX MCKINLEY SAN MIGUEL UNION CURRY MORA SANTA FE VALENCIA DE BACA SYNOPSIS: THE AIRMASS ACROSS THE NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. AT THE SAME TIME THE AIRMASS DRIES FARTHER WEST INTO THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND MORE SO OVER THE NORTHWEST. UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES IN THE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT MAY ENHANCE THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE LATER TODAY. SPOTTERj ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING GENERALLY IN THE AREA FROM THE COLORADO BORDER SOUTH TO NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF I-40 AND EAST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN.
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, 2:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm 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 |
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.