Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1997, 3:34 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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
- Jun 10, 1997, 3:34 PM MDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1997, 4:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colfax County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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 10, 4:30 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Maxwell, NM | State Police reported 1 inch hail in Maxwell. |
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
Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 102134 RRA SVRABQ NMC007-102235- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 334 PM MDT TUE JUN 10 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 435 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...COLFAX COUNTY AT 332 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF COLFAX MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE THE MOST LIKELY THREAT WITH THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Jun 10, 11:05 AM MDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-110000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1105 AM MDT TUE JUN 10 1997 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: THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST...EASTCENTRAL...AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY. A COLD FRONT MOVED THROUGH MUCH OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO OVERNIGHT... ALLOWING A MOIST AIR MASS INTO THE AREA. WEAK UPSLOPE WINDS WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE SLIGHT RISK AREA TODAY. THE AIR MASS WILL BECOME UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AS WIDESPREAD LOW CLOUDS DISSIPATE BY EARLY AFTERNOON. MOST THUNDERSTORMS WILL INITIALLY DEVELOP OVER THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN...WITH THE LIKELIEST LOCATIONS BEING THE SANGRE DE CRISTOS OF NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND THE CAPITAN... SACRAMENTO...AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHCENTRAL NEW MEXICO. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS. MOVEMENT IS EXPECTED TO BE EAST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GDC
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 11:06 AM MDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-110000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1105 AM MDT TUE JUN 10 1997 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: THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST...EASTCENTRAL...AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY. A COLD FRONT MOVED THROUGH MUCH OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO OVERNIGHT... ALLOWING A MOIST AIR MASS INTO THE AREA. WEAK UPSLOPE WINDS WILL PERSIST ACROSS THE SLIGHT RISK AREA TODAY. THE AIR MASS WILL BECOME UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AS WIDESPREAD LOW CLOUDS DISSIPATE BY EARLY AFTERNOON. MOST THUNDERSTORMS WILL INITIALLY DEVELOP OVER THE CENTRAL MOUNTAIN CHAIN...WITH THE LIKELIEST LOCATIONS BEING THE SANGRE DE CRISTOS OF NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND THE CAPITAN... SACRAMENTO...AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHCENTRAL NEW MEXICO. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS. MOVEMENT IS EXPECTED TO BE EAST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GDC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 65 min |
| Jun 10, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.