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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 11, 1997Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1997, 2:21 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 69 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 11, 1997, 2:21 PM MDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1997, 3:30 PM MDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 2:23 PM MDTHail 1.75Roswell, NM
Jun 11, 2:23 PM MDTHail 1.75Dexter, NM

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1063 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 12:00Z on 1997-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 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
1063 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-237 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albuquerque, NM issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 6:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves59 min
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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.