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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Albuquerque, NM

May 30, 1997Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1997, 6:22 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report 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: May 30, 1997, 6:22 PM MDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1997, 7:25 PM MDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Colfax County, NM

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 30, 6:52 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Cimarron, NM	Dime hail covered the ground to one inch deep.

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 nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

149 
WUUS1 KABQ 310023 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC007-310125-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...WESTERN COLFAX COUNTY
 
AT 621 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR
2 MILES NORTHWEST OF CIMARRON MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...CIMARRON...PHILMONT
SCOUT RANCH HEADQUARTERS...RAYADO AND MIAMI.

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

Local storm report, May 30, 6:10 PM MDT, 12 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
610 PM MDT FRI MAY 30 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0601 PM    WATROUS                   NM   .88 INCH HAIL
05/30/97   MORA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 6:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, San Miguel	61 min
May 30, 7:16 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	64 min
May 30, 7:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	61 min
May 30, 8:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	58 min
May 30, 8:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves, De Baca	61 min
May 30, 8:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	63 min
May 30, 9:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	60 min
May 30, 9:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	63 min
May 31, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Rio Arriba, Taos	47 min
May 31, 5:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	49 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.