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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 23, 1997Bernalillo County, Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1997, 7:13 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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: Apr 23, 1997, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 1997, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bernalillo County, NM, Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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
Apr 23, 7:21 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Albuquerque Intl Arp, NM
Apr 23, 7:30 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Albuquerque, NM
Apr 23, 7:40 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Tijeras, 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 39 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 444 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

992 
WUUS1 KABQ 240115 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC001-043-240215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
713 PM MDT WED APR 23 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

   ...BERNALILLO COUNTY

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

   ...SOUTHERN SANDOVAL COUNTY
 
AT 708 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY ALBUQUERQUE
DOPPLER RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF DOUBLE EAGLE AIRPORT MOVING EAST
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...THE CITY OF
ALBUQUERQUE...RIO RANCHO...PLACITAS...AND THE EAST MOUNTAIN
COMMUNITIES NORTH OF INTERSTATE 40.

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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	35 min
Apr 23, 7:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	59 min
Apr 23, 7:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe, Torrance	64 min
Apr 23, 8:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	48 min
Apr 23, 9:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	47 min
Apr 23, 9:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	59 min
Apr 23, 10:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	68 min
Apr 23, 11:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	34 min
Apr 23, 11:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	69 min
Apr 24, 12:24 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	56 min
Apr 24, 1:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	33 min
Apr 24, 5:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	4 hr

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.