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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 4, 1997Socorro County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1997, 4:27 PM MDT for Socorro County, New Mexico. It was in force for 63 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
Jul 4, 1997, 4:27 PM MDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1997, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Socorro County, NM

The nearest sounding before it

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-07-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 1997-07-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-461 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1640 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KABQ 042225 RRA
SVRABQ
NMC053-042330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
427 PM MDT FRI JUL 4 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

   ...NORTHWESTERN SOCORRO COUNTY
 
AT 425 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY ALBUQUERQUE
DOPPLER RADAR 6 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF ALAMO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...ALAMO.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING FUNNEL CLOUDS.
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE
ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe60 min
Jul 3, 6:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca61 min
Jul 3, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca35 min
Jul 3, 7:43 PM MDTTornado WarningABQDe Baca32 min
Jul 3, 8:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQChaves60 min
Jul 3, 9:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt62 min
Jul 4, 3:49 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCibola36 min
Jul 4, 5:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSocorro56 min

Nearby

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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.