Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 10, 1997De Baca County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1997, 5:44 PM MDT for De Baca County, New Mexico. It was in force for 61 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, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1997, 6:45 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County De Baca County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-06-10Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
-208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 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.

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

Local storm report, Jun 10, 5:44 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
544 PM MDT TUE JUN 10 1997

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0430 PM    MAXWELL                   NM   1 INCH HAIL
06/10/97   COLFAX                         STATE POLICE REPORT

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, 5:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax60 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.