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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 10, 1997Colfax County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1997, 5:30 PM MDT for Colfax County, New Mexico. It was in force for 60 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 10, 1997, 5:30 PM MDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1997, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Colfax County, NM

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 10, 4:30 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Carson/Butt, CO (KFCS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Carson/Butt, CO at 12:00Z on 1997-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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 10, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax61 min
Jun 10, 3:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe61 min
Jun 10, 4:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax65 min
Jun 10, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe60 min
Jun 10, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.