Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1997, 5:41 PM MDT for Mora County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 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 31, 1997, 5:41 PM MDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1997, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mora County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 195 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:45 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Ocate, NM |
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 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -266 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1319 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 312340 RRA SVRABQ NMC033-010030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 541 PM MDT SAT MAY 31 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...MORA COUNTY AT 539 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF OCATE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE OVER OCATE BY 550 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST jFLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 6:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 63 min |
| 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.