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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 29, 1997Guadalupe County, New Mexico

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-05-29Temperature 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 1997-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 1:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves69 min
May 29, 4:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion60 min
May 29, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca63 min
May 29, 5:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding64 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.