Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 5:45 PM MDT for Curry County, De Baca County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min. 2 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
- Jul 5, 1997, 5:45 PM MDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1997, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 6:26 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Clovis, NM | |
| Jul 5, 6:30 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Portales, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 435 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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, Jul 5, 2:33 PM MDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
NMZ005-052100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 233 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN MORA COUNTY ISSUED AT 158 PM MDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THUNDERSTORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT.
Local storm report, Jul 5, 4:48 PM MDT, 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 1:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 62 min |
| 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 |
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.