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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Albuquerque, NM

July 5, 1997Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Albuquerque, NM issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1997, 4:18 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 67 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, 4:18 PM MDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1997, 5:25 PM MDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Albuquerque, NM
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 5, 4:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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 1997-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 621 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 1997-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
621 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, 2:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
NMZ005-052100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
233 PM MDT SAT JUL 5 1997

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN MORA COUNTY ISSUED AT
158 PM MDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

THE THUNDERSTORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND NO
LONGER POSES A THREAT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 1:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQMora62 min
Jul 5, 3:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Union55 min
Jul 5, 3:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel55 min
Jul 5, 3:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe, Harding, Quay, San Miguel68 min
Jul 5, 3:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion68 min
Jul 5, 3:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca68 min
Jul 5, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQLincoln63 min
Jul 5, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt57 min
Jul 5, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry, De Baca, Roosevelt60 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.