Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1997, 12:24 AM MDT for De Baca County, Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 56 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 24, 1997, 12:24 AM MDT (06:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1997, 1:20 AM MDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.
387 WUUS1 KABQ 240623 RRA SVRABQ NMC011-019-240720- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1224 AM MDT THU APR 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 120 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...DE BACA COUNTY ...SOUTHWESTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY AT 1220 AM MDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF VAUGHN TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF SANTA ROSA. THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS 10 MILES WIDE AND IS MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME COMMUNITES AFFECTED BY THIS WARNING INCLUDE SUMNER LAKE STATE PARK...RAMON...YESO...FORT SUMNER...AND TAIBAN. 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, 9:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Guadalupe | 59 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.