Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Albuquerque, NM
NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1997, 10:05 PM MDT for Curry County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 5, 1997, 10:05 PM MDT (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1997, 11:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albuquerque, NM
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Curry County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 10:19 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Clovis Arpt, 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 806 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KABQ 060402 SVRABQ NMC009-041-060505- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 1005 PM MDT THU JUN 5 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1105 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHEASTERN CURRY COUNTY ...EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY AT 1002 PM MDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF CLOVIS SOUTHWEST THROUGH PORTALES TO NEAR KENNA. THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...CLOVIS...FARWELL...PORTALES...ROGERS...ARCH...PEP...HIGHWAY AND CAUSEY. 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 LOWESTD FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 64 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.