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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 25, 1996Guadalupe County, Torrance County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 7:20 PM MDT for Guadalupe County, Torrance County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1996, 7:20 PM MDT (01:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1996, 8:20 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Guadalupe County, NM, Torrance County, NM

The radar

The Albuquerque radar (KABX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 1996-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 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 1996-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 25, 6:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQSan Miguel2 hr
Jul 25, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel60 min
Jul 25, 8:04 PM MDTTornado WarningABQGuadalupe46 min
Jul 26, 3:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora40 min
Jul 26, 3:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax64 min
Jul 26, 4:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora56 min
Jul 26, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln48 min
Jul 26, 4:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel55 min
Jul 26, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.