Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 2, 1997San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1997, 8:58 PM MST for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 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: Apr 2, 1997, 8:58 PM MST (03:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 1997, 9:45 PM MST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County San Miguel County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 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-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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 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.

705 
WUUS1 KABQ 030400 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC047-030445-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
858 PM MST WED APR 2 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM MST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...EASTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY
 
AT 858 PM MST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY ALBUQUERQUE
DOPPLER RADAR 13 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF CONCHAS DAM MOVING NORTH AT
25 MPH.  CONCHAS AND CONCHAS LAKE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, Apr 2, 6:08 PM MST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED /MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME/
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
608 PM MST WED APR 02 1997

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

0520 PM    RAGLAND                   NM   .5 INCH HAIL
04/02/97   QUAY

0540 PM    SANTA ROSA                NM   .5 INCH HAIL
04/02/97   GUADALUPE

0556 PM    TUCUMCARI                 NM   1 INCH HAIL
04/02/97   QUAY

Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:09 PM MST, 2 hours 49 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED /MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME/
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
608 PM MST WED APR 02 1997

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

0520 PM    RAGLAND                   NM   .5 INCH HAIL
04/02/97   QUAY

0540 PM    SANTA ROSA                NM   .5 INCH HAIL
04/02/97   GUADALUPE

0556 PM    TUCUMCARI                 NM   1 INCH HAIL
04/02/97   QUAY

Local storm report, Apr 2, 6:49 PM MST, 2 hours 9 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
649 PM MST WED APR 02 1997

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

0612 PM    4 S TUCUMCARI             NM   .75 INCH HAIL
04/02/97   QUAY                           DIME SIZE HAIL ON SR 209

0642 PM    CONCHAS DAM               NM   .75 INCH HAIL
04/02/97   SAN MIGUEL

Local storm report, Apr 2, 7:01 PM MST, 1 hour 57 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
701 PM MST WED APR 02 1997

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

0650 PM    CONCHAS DAM               NM   .75 INCH HAIL
04/02/97   SAN MIGUEL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 5:25 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	60 min
Apr 2, 5:45 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	60 min
Apr 2, 6:25 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, Quay	55 min
Apr 2, 6:45 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.