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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 11, 1997Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1997, 3:27 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 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 11, 1997, 3:27 PM MDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1997, 4:25 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 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

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

177 
WUUS1 KABQ 112126 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC005-112225-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
327 PM MDT WED JUN 11 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 425 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

   ...CHAVES COUNTY
 

RADAR INDICATES SEVERAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CHAVES
COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE OVER
THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE COUNTY.

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 11, 2:38 PM MDT, 49 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
238 PM MDT WED JUN 11 1997

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

0223 PM    ROSWELL                   NM   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/11/97   CHAVES                         GOLFBALL HAIL AT ROSWELL
                                          PD AND NEAR DEXTER

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, 2:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves69 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.