Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Albuquerque, NM

June 11, 1997Roosevelt County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1997, 4:10 PM MDT for Roosevelt 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 11, 1997, 4:10 PM MDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1997, 5:10 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Roosevelt County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1323 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1997-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 295 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
1323 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
295 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
363 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
9.5

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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 11, 2:38 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 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, 3:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves58 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.