Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1997, 4:45 PM MDT for De Baca County, Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 10, 1997, 4:45 PM MDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1997, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 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, Jun 10, 11:05 AM MDT, 5 hours 40 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, 5 hours 39 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, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 61 min |
| 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.