Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 30, 1997San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1997, 5:52 PM MDT for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 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 30, 1997, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1997, 6:55 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-05-30Temperature 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 1997-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 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.

932 
WUUS1 KABQ 302353 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC047-310055-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
552 PM MDT FRI MAY 30 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL SAN MIGUEL COUNTY
 
AT 549 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR
10 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF LAS VEGAS SEWAGE PLANT...OR NEAR WATROUS.
THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH...AND WILL
CROSS STATE HIGHWAY 104 IN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY AT AROUND 620 PM.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...LA LIENDRE.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 6:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay61 min
May 29, 6:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding61 min
May 29, 7:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, San Miguel62 min
May 29, 8:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay57 min
May 30, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Harding, Mora63 min
May 30, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel58 min
May 30, 5:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel52 min

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.