Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1997, 1:32 PM MDT for Mora 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
- May 8, 1997, 1:32 PM MDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1997, 2:20 PM MDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mora County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, May 8, 9:43 AM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026- 081545- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 945 AM MDT THU MAY 8 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: VERY MOIST AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF NEW MEXICO WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AS STRONG SPRING SUNSHINE WARMS THE AIR NEAR THE SURFACE. IN ADDITION A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL BE SAGGING SOUTHWARD DOWN THE PLAINS TODAY. THESE FACTORS ARE LIKELY TO LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIDELY SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING FROM THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS EASTWARD OVER THE PLAINS. LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. WEST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND INCREASE TONIGHT AS STRONG EAST WINDS DEVELOP INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THIS EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT FROM THE EAST SLOPES OF NEW MEXICO/S CENTRAL MOUNTAIN RANGES EASTWARD OVER >THE PLAINS. MJF
Special weather statement, May 8, 9:45 AM MDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026- 081545- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 945 AM MDT THU MAY 8 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: VERY MOIST AIRMASS IN PLACE OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF NEW MEXICO WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AS STRONG SPRING SUNSHINE WARMS THE AIR NEAR THE SURFACE. IN ADDITION A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL BE SAGGING SOUTHWARD DOWN THE PLAINS TODAY. THESE FACTORS ARE LIKELY TO LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIDELY SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING FROM THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS EASTWARD OVER THE PLAINS. LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. WEST OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND INCREASE TONIGHT AS STRONG EAST WINDS DEVELOP INTO THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THIS EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT FROM THE EAST SLOPES OF NEW MEXICO/S CENTRAL MOUNTAIN RANGES EASTWARD OVER THE PLAINS. MJF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora, San Miguel | 65 min |
| May 8, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | San Miguel | 59 min |
| May 8, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Torrance | 40 min |
| May 8, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 45 min |
| May 8, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 50 min |
| May 8, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 55 min |
| May 8, 5:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 47 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.