Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1997, 6:05 PM MDT for 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
- Jul 3, 1997, 6:05 PM MDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1997, 7:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Guadalupe County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 5212 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 040004 RRA SVRABQ NMC019-040105- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 605 PM MDT THU JUL 3 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 705 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...EASTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY AT 600 PM MDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY ALBUQUERQUE DOPPLER RADAR FROM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SANTA ROSA TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEWKIRK. THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...CUERVO...NEWKIRK AND SANTA ROSA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS 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, Jul 3, 4:26 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 61 min |
| Jul 3, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 35 min |
| Jul 3, 7:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 32 min |
| Jul 3, 8:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 60 min |
| Jul 3, 9:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 3:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | Cibola | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 5:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Socorro | 56 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.