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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 27, 1996Harding County, Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1996, 12:27 AM MDT for Harding County, Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 27, 1996, 12:27 AM MDT (06:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1996, 3:30 AM MDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 1996-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1813 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 1996-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 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
1813 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
5.5

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 26, 7:20 PM MDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
720 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0700 PM    YESO                      NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/26/96   DEBACA                         GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          10N YESO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 6:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe58 min
Jul 26, 6:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe3 hr
Jul 26, 7:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca64 min
Jul 26, 7:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe65 min
Jul 26, 9:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay59 min
Jul 27, 12:27 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQHarding, Quay3 hr

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.