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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 8, 1997Mora County, New Mexico

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-05-08Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1997-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 115 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 2:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora, San Miguel65 min
May 8, 3:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel59 min
May 8, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQTorrance40 min
May 8, 4:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca45 min
May 8, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln50 min
May 8, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves55 min
May 8, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.