Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 8, 1997Quay County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1997, 9:26 PM MDT for Quay County, New Mexico. It was in force for 49 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, 9:26 PM MDT (03:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1997, 10:15 PM MDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Quay County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 1997-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1143 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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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
Jun 8, 7:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe62 min
Jun 8, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves57 min
Jun 8, 9:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca58 min
Jun 8, 10:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry64 min
Jun 9, 12:30 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca5 hr
Jun 9, 3:51 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves54 min
Jun 9, 4:44 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves46 min

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.