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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 8, 1997De Baca County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1997, 9:02 PM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 8, 1997, 9:02 PM MDT (03:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1997, 10:00 PM MDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County De Baca County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 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.

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

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:11 PM MDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	62 min
Jun 8, 8:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	57 min
Jun 8, 9:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Quay	49 min
Jun 8, 10:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry	64 min
Jun 9, 12:30 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	De Baca	5 hr
Jun 9, 3:51 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	54 min
Jun 9, 4:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1997 Every 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.