Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1997, 3:59 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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 29, 1997, 3:59 PM MDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1997, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Guadalupe County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 3120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
089 WUUS1 KABQ 292200 RRA SVRABQ NMC019-292300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 359 PM MDT THU MAY 29 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...EASTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY AT 359 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF PUERTO DE LUNA...OR 5 MILES EAST OF SANTA ROSA ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 84. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS...MOVING SOUTH OF I-40 AND EAST OF U.S. HIGHWAY 84. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 29, 10:05 AM MDT, 5 hours 54 minutes before
NMZ001>021-026-282200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 1005 AM MDT THU MAY 29 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: THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS AFTERNOON. SURFACE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE REMAINS IN PLACE FROM EXTREME NORTHEAST PLAINS TO SOUTHCENTRAL MOUNTAINS OF NEW MEXICO. AIRMASS IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE TO EAST OF THE TROUGH WITH YET ANOTHER WEAK DISTURBANCE IN THE NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT APPROACHING THE AREA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO DEVELOP ALONG THE TROUGH AROUND MIDDAY AND MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD. BECAUSE OF THE FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR AND STRONG INSTABILITY...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL BUT THE VERTICAL WIND PROFILES SUGGEST ISOLATED SUPERCELLS ARE POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. MJF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 69 min |
| May 29, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 60 min |
| May 29, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca | 63 min |
| May 29, 5:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding | 64 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.