Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Albuquerque, NM

September 11, 1987Guadalupe County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 1987, 7:35 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, New Mexico. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 11, 1987, 7:35 PM MDT (01:35 UTC)
Expired
Sep 11, 1987, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Guadalupe County, NM

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 284 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-09-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1560 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 1987-09-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1560 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

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.