Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1997, 3:50 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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 22, 1997, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1997, 4:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chaves County, NM
The radar
The Holloman AFB radar (KHDX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 222147 SVRABQ NMC005-222250- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 350 PM MDT THU MAY 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 450 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHCENTRAL CHAVES COUNTY AT 344 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 17 MILES WEST OF VILLA SOLANO SCHOOL OR 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSWELL MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 17 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...VILLA SOLANO SCHOOL. 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.
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 22, 10:15 AM MDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026- 230200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 1015 AM MDT THU MAY 22 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: DEWPOINTS OVR EASTERN NEW MEXICO CURRENTLY RANGE FROM NEAR 50 FAR NORTHEAST TO NEAR 60 FAR SOUTHEAST. FLOW WILL REMAIN MOSTLY SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST DURING DAY MAINTAINING HIGH DEWPOINTS OVER THE EAST. LOW CLOUDINESS ALREADY SHOWING SIGNS OF DISSIPATING SO THAT AMPLE SUNSHINE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON TO HELP DESTABILIZE AIRMASS WITH BEST HEATING OVER EASTCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH/VORT MAX OVER NORTHEAST TODAY WITH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE OVER ALL OF THE EAST CREATING DECENT SHEAR ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHEAST. THUS THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY OVER THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MM
Special weather statement, May 22, 10:18 AM MDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026- 230200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 1015 AM MDT THU MAY 22 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: DEWPOINTS OVR EASTERN NEW MEXICO CURRENTLY RANGE FROM NEAR 50 FAR NORTHEAST TO NEAR 60 FAR SOUTHEAST. FLOW WILL REMAIN MOSTLY SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST DURING DAY MAINTAINING HIGH DEWPOINTS OVER THE EAST. LOW CLOUDINESS ALREADY SHOWING SIGNS OF DISSIPATING SO THAT AMPLE SUNSHINE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON TO HELP DESTABILIZE AIRMASS WITH BEST HEATING OVER EASTCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH/VORT MAX OVER NORTHEAST TODAY WITH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE OVER ALL OF THE EAST CREATING DECENT SHEAR ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHEAST. THUS THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY OVER THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MM
Special weather statement, May 22, 1:26 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
NMZ001>005-009-010-231800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 130 PM MDT THU MAY 23 1997 RECENT RAINFALL COMBINED WITH SNOW MELT RUNOFF FROM THE MOUNTAINS HAS RESULTED IN HIGH WATER AND FAST FLOWS IN THE RIVERS AND STREAMS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO. WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES AND IMPROVING WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR MOST AREAS THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND...THOSE OF YOU WITH PLANS TO SPEND TIME OUTDOORS ALONG THE RIVERS AND STREAMS NEED TO BE AWARE OF THE DANGERS OF THE FAST MOVING WATERS. SMALL STREAMS MAY WELL BE CARRYING TWO TO THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF WATER NORMALLY ENCOUNTERED THIS TIME OF YEAR. LARGER WATERWAYS LIKE THE ANIMAS RIVER ABOVE FARMINGTON AND THE RIO GRANDE...BOTH ABOVE AND BELOW COCHITI RESERVOIR...ARE RUNNING HIGHER AND FASTER THAN LAST YEAR. WATER RELEASES FROM NAVAJO RESERVOIR HAVE ALSO INCREASED RECENTLY TO NEAR 5000 CUBIC FEET PER SECOND IN THE SAN JUAN RIVER. THE FORCES GENERATED BY FAST FLOWING WATER SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY...ESPECIALLY WHEN COMPARED TO LAST YEAR. AT THIS TIME LAST YEAR STREAM AND RIVER FLOW WAS MINIMAL DUE TO LACK OF WINTER SNOW OR SPRING RAINS...ONLY THE FIRE DANGER WAS HIGH. EAP
Special weather statement, May 22, 1:27 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
NMZ001>005-009-010-231800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 130 PM MDT THU MAY 22 1997 RECENT RAINFALL COMBINED WITH SNOW MELT RUNOFF FROM THE MOUNTAINS HAS RESULTED IN HIGH WATER AND FAST FLOWS IN THE RIVERS AND STREAMS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO. WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES AND IMPROVING WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR MOST AREAS THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND...THOSE OF YOU WITH PLANS TO SPEND TIME OUTDOORS ALONG THE RIVERS AND STREAMS NEED TO BE AWARE OF THE DANGERS OF THE FAST MOVING WATERS. SMALL STREAMS MAY WELL BE CARRYING TWO TO THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF WATER NORMALLY ENCOUNTERED THIS TIME OF YEAR. LARGER WATERWAYS LIKE THE ANIMAS RIVER ABOVE FARMINGTON AND THE RIO GRANDE...BOTH ABOVE AND BELOW COCHITI RESERVOIR...ARE RUNNING HIGHER AND FASTER THAN LAST YEAR. WATER RELEASES FROM NAVAJO RESERVOIR HAVE ALSO INCREASED RECENTLY TO NEAR 5000 CUBIC FEET PER SECOND IN THE SAN JUAN RIVER. THE FORCES GENERATED BY FAST FLOWING WATER SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY...ESPECIALLY WHEN COMPARED TO LAST YEAR. AT THIS TIME LAST YEAR STREAM AND RIVER FLOW WAS MINIMAL DUE TO LACK OF WINTER SNOW OR SPRING RAINS...ONLY THE FIRE DANGER WAS HIGH. EAP
Special weather statement, May 22, 1:30 PM MDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
NMZ001>005-009-010-231800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 130 PM MDT THU MAY 22 1997 RECENT RAINFALL COMBINED WITH SNOW MELT RUNOFF FROM THE MOUNTAINS HAS RESULTED IN HIGH WATER AND FAST FLOWS IN THE RIVERS AND STREAMS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO. WITH WARMER TEMPERATURES AND IMPROVING WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR MOST AREAS THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND...THOSE OF YOU WITH PLANS TO SPEND TIME OUTDOORS ALONG THE RIVERS AND STREAMS NEED TO BE AWARE OF THE DANGERS OF THE FAST MOVING WATERS. SMALL STREAMS MAY WELL BE CARRYING TWO TO THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF WATER NORMALLY ENCOUNTERED THIS TIME OF YEAR. LARGER WATERWAYS LIKE THE ANIMAS RIVER ABOVE FARMINGTON AND THE RIO GRANDE...BOTH ABOVE AND BELOW COCHITI RESERVOIR...ARE RUNNING HIGHER AND FASTER THAN LAST YEAR. WATER RELEASES FROM NAVAJO RESERVOIR HAVE ALSO INCREASED RECENTLY TO NEAR 5000 CUBIC FEET PER SECOND IN THE SAN JUAN RIVER. THE FORCES GENERATED BY FAST FLOWING WATER SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY...ESPECIALLY WHEN COMPARED TO LAST YEAR. AT THIS TIME LAST YEAR STREAM AND RIVER FLOW WAS MINIMAL DUE TO LACK OF WINTER SNOW OR SPRING RAINS...ONLY THE FIRE DANGER WAS HIGH. EAP
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.