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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 5, 1997Union County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 3:52 PM MDT for Union County, New Mexico. It was in force for 68 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 5, 1997, 3:52 PM MDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 1997, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area: Whole counties

County Union County, NM

The radar

The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 206 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 10:01 AM MDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 5, 2:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 1:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Mora	62 min
Jul 5, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Harding, Union	55 min
Jul 5, 3:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	San Miguel	55 min
Jul 5, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel	68 min
Jul 5, 3:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	De Baca	68 min
Jul 5, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Lincoln	63 min
Jul 5, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Chaves	67 min
Jul 5, 5:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt	57 min
Jul 5, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABQ	Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt	60 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.