Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 1:58 PM MDT for Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 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 5, 1997, 1:58 PM MDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1997, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mora County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 051958 RRA SVRABQ NMC033-052100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 158 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...EASTERN MORA COUNTY AT 150 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 5 MILES NORTH OF WAGON MOUND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL IS LIKELY FROM THIS STORM. 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 DON'T 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 5, 10:01 AM MDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026- 060300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 1000 AMD MDT SAT JUL 5 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: WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN NEW MEXICO MAY ACT TO ENCHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON WHERE THE AIRMASS IS ALREADY MOIST AND UNSTABLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE NEW MEXICO EASTERN PLAINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 3:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 55 min |
| Jul 5, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel | 68 min |
| Jul 5, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 68 min |
| Jul 5, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 68 min |
| Jul 5, 4:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 57 min |
| Jul 5, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt | 60 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.