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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 13, 1990Bernalillo County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1990, 6:38 PM MDT for Bernalillo County, New Mexico. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1990, 6:38 PM MDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1990, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Bernalillo 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 6 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 1990-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 327 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 00:00Z on 1990-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
327 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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
Jul 13, 6:38 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo3 hr
Jul 13, 6:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln47 min
Jul 14, 5:50 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval3 hr
Jul 14, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQBernalillo, Sandoval55 min

Nearby

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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.