Alert archive / New Mexico / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Albuquerque, NM

April 23, 1997Lincoln County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1997, 7:21 PM MDT for Lincoln 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: Apr 23, 1997, 7:21 PM MDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 1997, 8:20 PM MDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 444 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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, Apr 23, 2:49 PM MDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
249 PM MDT WED APR 23 1997

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

0500 PM    10 N MILNESAND            NM   .88 INCH HAIL
04/22/97   ROOSEVELT                      DELAYED REPORT

Local storm report, Apr 23, 2:50 PM MDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE, NM
249 PM MDT WED APR 23 1997

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

0500 PM    10 N MILNESAND            NM   .88 INCH HAIL
04/22/97   ROOSEVELT                      DELAYED REPORT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Socorro	35 min
Apr 23, 7:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Bernalillo, Sandoval	62 min
Apr 23, 7:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Santa Fe, Torrance	64 min
Apr 23, 8:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Sandoval	48 min
Apr 23, 9:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	47 min
Apr 23, 9:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	59 min
Apr 23, 10:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe	68 min
Apr 23, 11:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Torrance	34 min
Apr 23, 11:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	69 min
Apr 24, 12:24 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca, Guadalupe	56 min
Apr 24, 1:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	33 min
Apr 24, 5:06 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	ABQ	Curry, Roosevelt	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 1997 Every 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.