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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 9, 1997Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1997, 3:51 AM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 54 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 9, 1997, 3:51 AM MDT (09:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1997, 4:45 AM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 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 1997-06-09Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1997-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 090951 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC005-091045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
351 AM MDT MON JUN 9 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...NORTHERN CHAVES COUNTY
 
AT 350 AM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY
DOPPLER RADAR 19 MILES SOUTH OF MESA MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS
STORM WILL CROSS HIGHWAY 285 IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS `IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, 9:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay49 min
Jun 8, 10:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry64 min
Jun 9, 12:30 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQDe Baca5 hr
Jun 9, 4:44 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves46 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.