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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 31, 1996Curry County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1996, 5:22 PM MDT for Curry County, New Mexico. It was in force for 53 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 31, 1996, 5:22 PM MDT (23:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1996, 6:15 PM MDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Curry County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 311 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-315 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jul 31, 1:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSandoval, Santa Fe61 min
Jul 31, 1:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora62 min
Jul 31, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora, San Miguel60 min
Jul 31, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel60 min
Jul 31, 5:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, San Miguel68 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.