Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1997, 9:51 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 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
- Apr 23, 1997, 9:51 PM MDT (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1997, 10:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Guadalupe County, NM
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 10:00 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Pintada, NM | |
| Apr 23, 10:40 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Pastura, 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, 3.9 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
728 WUUS1 KABQ 240347 RRA SVRABQ NMC019-240450- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 951 PM MDT WED APR 23 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1050 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...GUADALUPE COUNTY AT 947 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY ALBUQUERQUE DOPPLER RADAR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF VAUGHN MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...PASTURA AND VAUGHN. 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, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Bernalillo, Sandoval | 62 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, 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
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.