Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1997, 9:51 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 44 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
- Jun 3, 1997, 9:51 PM MDT (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1997, 10:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colfax County, NM
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:52 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
417 WUUS1 KABQ 040351 RRA SVRABQ NMC007-040435- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 951 PM MDT TUE JUN 3 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1035 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHERN COLFAX COUNTY AT 950 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY ALBUQUERQUE DOPPLER RADAR 5 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF SPRINGER MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...SPRINGER. 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, Jun 3, 9:08 PM MDT, 43 minutes before
NMZ005-006-007-013-030400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 908 PM MDT MON JUN 3 1997 ...TORNADO WARNING NUMBER 381 WHICH INCLUDED NORTHEAST AND PART OF EASTCENTRAL NEW MEXICO HAS BEEN CANCELLED.... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DIMINISHED OVER NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL NEW MEXICO AND ONLY DEBRIS CLOUDS REMAIN OVER UNION COUNTY. THUS THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES HAS ALSO DIMINISHED AND THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. MM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Lincoln | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Colfax | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.