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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 10, 1997Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1997, 6:11 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 59 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, 6:11 PM MDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1997, 7:10 PM MDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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 1997-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1689 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 1997-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1689 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1252 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
4.7

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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, 27 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, 6:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Harding, Union61 min
Jun 10, 7:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves58 min
Jun 10, 7:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Union55 min
Jun 11, 2:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves69 min
Jun 11, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves58 min
Jun 11, 4:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt60 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.