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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Albuquerque, NM

August 13, 1990San Miguel County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1990, 7:43 PM MDT for San Miguel County, New Mexico. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1990, 7:43 PM MDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1990, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County San Miguel 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1990-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 67 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1990-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1057 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 7:24 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSierra66 min
Aug 13, 7:43 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Miguel62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.