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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 3, 1995Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1995, 12:25 AM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1995, 12:25 AM MDT (06:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1995, 1:15 AM MDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Colfax County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 306 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 1995-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 825 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 1995-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1380 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.2

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 6:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax52 min
Jun 3, 4:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.