Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 23, 1997Sandoval County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1997, 8:17 PM MDT for Sandoval County, New Mexico. It was in force for 48 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
Apr 23, 1997, 8:17 PM MDT (02:17 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1997, 9:05 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Sandoval County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1997-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1997-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 228 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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.

285 
WUUS1 KABQ 240215 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC043-240305-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 905 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

   ...SOUTHERN SANDOVAL COUNTY
 
AT 813 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY ALBUQUERQUE
DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF ZIA PUEBLO MOVING EAST AT
35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...ZIA PUEBLO...SANTA ANA
PUEBLO...BERNALILLO...SAN FELIPE PUEBLO...
ALGODONES...PLACITAS...SANTO DOMINGO PUEBLO.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

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

Local storm report, Apr 23, 2:49 PM MDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
249 PM MDT WED APR 23 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0500 PM    10 N MILNESAND            NM   .88 INCH HAIL
04/22/97   ROOSEVELT                      DELAYED REPORT
Local storm report, Apr 23, 2:50 PM MDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
249 PM MDT WED APR 23 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0500 PM    10 N MILNESAND            NM   .88 INCH HAIL
04/22/97   ROOSEVELT                      DELAYED REPORT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 7:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro35 min
Apr 23, 7:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval62 min
Apr 23, 7:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln59 min
Apr 23, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSanta Fe, Torrance64 min
Apr 23, 9:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance47 min
Apr 23, 9:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe59 min
Apr 23, 10:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe68 min
Apr 23, 11:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance34 min
Apr 23, 11:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca69 min
Apr 24, 12:24 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe56 min
Apr 24, 1:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves33 min
Apr 24, 5:06 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt4 hr

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.