Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 2, 1997Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1997, 5:25 PM MST for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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 2, 1997, 5:25 PM MST (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 1997, 6:25 PM MST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Quay County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 2, 5:56 PM MST	Hail 1	Tucumcari, NM
Apr 2, 6:12 PM MST	Hail 0.75	Tucumcari, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 2, 2:30 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 146 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 030023 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC037-030125-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
525 PM MST WED APR 2 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 625 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

   ...WESTERN QUAY COUNTY
 
AT 525 PM MST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR
8 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF QUAY...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
TUCUMCARI. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF
RAGLAND.  HAIL UP TO ONE INCH CAN BE EXPECTED.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...TUCUMCARI.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 5:45 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	60 min
Apr 2, 6:25 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	55 min
Apr 2, 6:45 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	60 min
Apr 2, 8:58 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1997 Every 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.