Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1997, 2:20 PM MDT for Mora County, San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 65 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, 2:20 PM MDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1997, 3:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mora County, NM, San Miguel County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 082019 RRA SVRABQ NMC033-047-082125- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 220 PM MDT THU MAY 8 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 325 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHERN MORA COUNTY ...NORTHWESTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY AT 220 PM MDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR NEAR SAPELLO AND 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WATROUS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...LAS VEGAS AND AREAS ALONG I-25 IN THE VICINITY OF WATROUS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK REFUGE FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 4 hours 37 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, 4 hours 35 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, 1:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Mora | 48 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.