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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 7, 1997Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1997, 11:25 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 2 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
Jun 7, 1997, 11:25 PM MDT (05:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1997, 1:30 AM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1330 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 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
1330 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1163 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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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
Jun 7, 8:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca65 min
Jun 7, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln45 min
Jun 7, 10:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca49 min
Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe2 hr
Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQChaves2 hr
Jun 7, 11:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe2 hr
Jun 7, 11:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay55 min
Jun 8, 12:24 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Roosevelt26 min
Jun 8, 12:58 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, Quay, Roosevelt57 min
Jun 8, 3:00 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQHarding3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.